September 20, 2003
NY Times still weapon-challenged
In today's paper, illustrating an article entitled "Cameras Shoot Where Uzis Can't", is a composite picture of a video camera grafted onto a submachine gun. It's not a great Photoshop job (the two joined pictures were taken at quite different angles -- very apparent in the print edition), and the gun is misidentified as an AK-47 (it's an H&K MP5).
Nitpicky? Perhaps. But the Times has been slipping up all too frequently lately -- just a couple of days ago there was a real zinger of a retraction: in the Times obituary for Charles Bronson, they had falsely stated that he had not been an aircraft gunner during WW2 as he had claimed, but had served in a mess squadron instead.
Posted by David on September 20, 2003 2:24 PM
Good catch. I hate it when they do an "we know what's best for you" type article, and then show how little they know of the subject material. Video is important, but the written word is superior. Some said the wall in Europe fell because of PC's, printers, and the ability to let anyone put out a newsletter. Indormation is power.
Posted by: Gunner on September 20, 2003 11:24 PM
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