'War' reporting gripe.
I'm a bit of a 'fanboy' when it comes to military history so I'm probably just being pedantic but neither this
or this
is a tank. They are mobile artillery, a tank is an armoured vehicle used for direct assult against an enemy, mobile artillery is used from behind the frontlines to support attacks or defense and does not engage an enemy directly.
Also a canon is a large calibre gun usually above 20mm, not just any old machine gun that looks big. They are just machine guns.
I could go on but it just irks me when journalists don't bother to find out even the basics of military terminology or descriptions.
Another thing is the way the media, mainly the 'left' leaning and politically correct media, love to sensationalise the effect of the Israeli 'onslaught' and devastation of airstrikes. Do the journallists know what effect the IAF could cause if they wanted too? The pictures of destryed buildings and numbers of casualties caused so far are nothing compared to the effects of a concerted air campaign conducted indescrimately.
When it's reported that Israel is targetting civilians it's by sources that aither don't know what they are talking about or are misinterpretting an isolated incident. If the IAF wanted to target civilians the death toll would be in the tens or even hundreds of thousands and the Lebanese cities would all be rubble.
The same goes for reports of the 'hundreds' of Hizbollah rockets 'raining' down on Israel. I don't know the true numbers but if those numbers are ture, the missiles are pretty ineffectual.
or this
is a tank. They are mobile artillery, a tank is an armoured vehicle used for direct assult against an enemy, mobile artillery is used from behind the frontlines to support attacks or defense and does not engage an enemy directly.
Also a canon is a large calibre gun usually above 20mm, not just any old machine gun that looks big. They are just machine guns.
I could go on but it just irks me when journalists don't bother to find out even the basics of military terminology or descriptions.
Another thing is the way the media, mainly the 'left' leaning and politically correct media, love to sensationalise the effect of the Israeli 'onslaught' and devastation of airstrikes. Do the journallists know what effect the IAF could cause if they wanted too? The pictures of destryed buildings and numbers of casualties caused so far are nothing compared to the effects of a concerted air campaign conducted indescrimately.
When it's reported that Israel is targetting civilians it's by sources that aither don't know what they are talking about or are misinterpretting an isolated incident. If the IAF wanted to target civilians the death toll would be in the tens or even hundreds of thousands and the Lebanese cities would all be rubble.
The same goes for reports of the 'hundreds' of Hizbollah rockets 'raining' down on Israel. I don't know the true numbers but if those numbers are ture, the missiles are pretty ineffectual.
posted by McNam at 21:18
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