“RE: I hate journalists that only give part of the story. They will keep this mess going by their intentional omissions.”
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I have said many, many times that the WORST liars are those who NEVER LIE! What I mean is that they never say anything that could technically be called making a statement that they know is literally false which is my definition of a lie. What they do is leave out things which could convey a truth which they don’t want to reveal or say things which, while technically true, leave the listener with a false impression. This kind of thing seems to be rampant in modern “journalism”. Then there is pure carelessness or ignorance which is so often obvious. I was reading an online report a little while ago about Ferguson in which it was said that police had seized a “45MM automatic handgun”. That would be a handgun with a caliber of approximately 1.77 meaning a bore diameter of over one and three quarters inch capable of fully automatic fire. I suspect if such a thing actually existed it would require someone maybe twenty feet tall and weighing three or four thousand pounds to fire it without injuring the user.
I wonder how many of these writers could even be made to understand how different a “45mm AUTOMATIC handgun” would be from a real world 45 CALIBRE SEMIautomatic handgun which is apparently what they meant to refer to.
Deliberately withholding relevant information.