Thread: Pot shots with a 308

Originally Posted by systolic

The photo is of a SKS or SKK 7.62x39mm rifle in a Dragunov stock. Not a .22. IT IS a MSSA.

The photo was taken from Stubbings' Facebook page. That's why they used it.

Not really. That is WHAT they used and WHERE they found it - not the same as answering WHY they used it.

We don't know for certain WHY they used it, but it may be reasonably deduced from the (intentional) effect of the article.

The use of the image in this article, with its MSSA caption, has the effect of suggesting a guy used a .308 MSSA against his neighbours.

The motivation behind this could be just because the journalist's integrity has been prostituted to sensationalism... or because of some Australian type gun control agenda which no inconvenient fact must stand in the way of... or both.

Originally Posted by Cordite

Not really. That is WHAT they used and WHERE they found it - not the same as answering WHY they used it.

We don't know for certain WHY they used it, but it may be reasonably deduced from the (intentional) effect of the article.

The use of the image in this article, with its MSSA caption, has the effect of suggesting a guy used a .308 MSSA against his neighbours.

The motivation behind this could be just because the journalist's integrity has been prostituted to sensationalism... or because of some Australian type gun control agenda which no inconvenient fact must stand in the way of... or both.

Probably just easier to cut and paste the photo. Just like the photo of Stubbings is taken from Facebook too.

Makes more sense than a conspiracy against guns, gun owners or shooting in general.

Originally Posted by systolic

Probably just easier to cut and paste the photo. Just like the photo of Stubbings is taken from Facebook too.

Makes more sense than a conspiracy against guns, gun owners or shooting in general.

You could be correct. It may not be a conspiracy against guns. You may have inadvertently stumbled onto the truth. Its a millennial conspiracy against having to make an effort to find the truth....if its in face book it must be true, besides it's too hard to actually find out facts.....The true conspiracy of presenting poorly edited and written articles in the hope that we will accept the lower standards and reward them for doing half the job they are supposed to be doing.

Originally Posted by timattalon

You could be correct. It may not be a conspiracy against guns. You may have inadvertently stumbled onto the truth. Its a millennial conspiracy against having to make an effort to find the truth....if its in face book it must be true, besides it's too hard to actually find out facts.....The true conspiracy of presenting poorly edited and written articles in the hope that we will accept the lower standards and reward them for doing half the job they are supposed to be doing.

"Conspiracy" is a word I did not use, and I agree with you, Systolic, that it would not fit.

It is more, as @timattalon says, sloppiness. Maybe deliberate when it suits? A lot of very clever people hide behind fake poor use of the English language to mislead rather than outright lie.

As for motivation, the spirit of our time, the Zeitgeist, has it as the popular and "the done thing" for many (but not all) journalists to poop on gun owners.