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To: Alouette

Is there no one anywhere in journalism who knows the difference between a rubber tired loader and a bulldozer??? Good grief, the story is a few days old already and I haven’t seen anyone get it right yet.


8 posted on 07/04/2008 8:59:33 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
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To: Past Your Eyes

With a few notable exceptions, there’s nobody in journalism who knows ANYTHING. Or cares. Fact checking? What’s that?

But at least he sympathetically reported the story of what happened to this family and their narrow escape from death.

And who knows? If the terrorist hadn’t backed up and tried again, but instead had driven straight on, maybe he would have killed a lot more people before he was brought down. So maybe it wasn’t just this one family that was saved from death.


10 posted on 07/04/2008 9:05:54 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Past Your Eyes

In fairness to the journo, most readers think of any piece of earthmoving equipment as a “bulldozer.”

If he had used correct terminology, they wouldn’t have had a clue what he was talking about. A forklift?


13 posted on 07/04/2008 9:35:52 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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To: Past Your Eyes
Is there no one anywhere in journalism who knows the difference between a rubber tired loader and a bulldozer???

Nah, only us cretins who actually work for living.

This is driving me nuts, too. What's so hard about saying "payloader" instead of bulldozer?

14 posted on 07/04/2008 9:40:02 AM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote!)
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