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Bowling Green Massacre

Skeptic Ginger said:
You're going to need to be more specific than just data dumping yet another news article covering the Trump claims.

Are you seriously saying the BBC agrees with Trump's claim the news media is underreporting terrorism? Or are you cherry picking some little nit and brushing it broadly over all of Trump's lies on the press coverage?
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If you cannot be bothered to go to the link; there is little point in my explaining, in any case it would take too long if it was to be of value. A skeptic would go to the data (linked) and draw appropriate conclusions; my opinion is worthless.

However I am happy to say what the link is to. The BBC has gone through the list of 'under reported' terrorism events. They have then identified those they have and have not reported with links to those reports. In some cases they have been unable to identify any event, as linked above a least one event appears to be a murder by a mentally ill person, not a terrorist event. (Second link)

People can draw their own conclusions about the case that the US government is making.
 
Dr. Keith said:
The odd thing is how hard it is to misspell things these days. Their and there, sure, but if I try to type attacker as A T T A K E R my computer autocorrects. What are they typing this list on?
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I find a trivial spelling mistake is autocorrected into nonsense. If my computer did not insist on substituting what it wants, I would pick up the error when I scan the post pre submitting.
 
Planigale said:
I find a trivial spelling mistake is autocorrected into nonsense.
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Always? Every time?

Of course it is also possible to use spell check without having it auto-correct. Mine just prompts me, and if I agree with one of the suggestions I'll use it.

Otherwise I just carry on.

If my computer did not insist on substituting what it wants, I would pick up the error when I scan the post pre submitting.
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Not a bad habit anyway. Spelling and grammar checkers are notoriously error prone them selves. Homophones can stymie a spell checker completely. And often do.

Maybe you should suggest this practice to the Trump team. They seem to be unaware of the concept of checking their work.
 
quadraginta said:
Always? Every time?

Of course it is also possible to use spell check without having it auto-correct. Mine just prompts me, and if I agree with one of the suggestions I'll use it.

Otherwise I just carry on.




Not a bad habit anyway. Spelling and grammar checkers are notoriously error prone them selves. Homophones can stymie a spell checker completely. And often do.

Maybe you should suggest this practice to the Trump team. They seem to be unaware of the concept of checking their work.
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I am much better at spotting a spelling mistake than a sense error (I guess the red underline helps), when scanning. So the habit of my computer to autocorrect posts sometimes makes for funny comments - occasionally worth leaving in.

I do turn off auto correct for word processing, but it persists for posts.
 
Planigale said:
If you cannot be bothered to go to the link; ....
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Excuse me? I looked at your links, it wasn't clear what the hell you were on about.


A skeptic would go to the data (linked) and draw appropriate conclusions; my opinion is worthless.
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:rolleyes: You got the second part right.


However I am happy to say what the link is to. The BBC has gone through the list of 'under reported' terrorism events. They have then identified those they have and have not reported with links to those reports. In some cases they have been unable to identify any event, as linked above a least one event appears to be a murder by a mentally ill person, not a terrorist event. (Second link)
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How does this support or even make sense in light of what you said: "Well the BBC do not support this."?


People can draw their own conclusions about the case that the US government is making.
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I conclude your first post was unclear and this one makes the first post even less clear.

Instead of getting annoyed at people maybe you should first consider if your post was clear, because in this case it was not.
 
Mojo said:
Fawkes actually did conspire to blow up parliament.
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He certainly did (among others), but even then it didn't work, and for that reason, despite the fact that there actually were plans for a terrorist act (unlike Bowling Green) the incident is still commonly known as 'The Gunpowder Plot' not 'The Gunpowder Massacre' and in a very British way has become a national 'celebration', despite being a resounding failure.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
How does this support or even make sense in light of what you said: "Well the BBC do not support this."?
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The post was perfectly clear to me; the BBC do not support the Trump administration's claim that terrorist attacks have been under-reported in the media, and demonstrated this lack of support by linking to their coverage of all (except, I think, one) of the attacks listed that actually happened, and pointing out the nonexistence of the ones that were simply made up. If you read the first link in Planigale's post, it's clear what it is: a very thorough and rigorous debunking of the Trump administration's claim.

Don't look too hard for enemies. It causes friendly fire incidents.

Dave
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
The lies coming out of this administration are getting so thick and bizarre, I'm not going to go lightly on Trump apologists.
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At least Iraq had WMD and the Second Gulf of Tonkin incident involved real boats. Or something.

quadraginta said:
Homophones can stymie a spell checker completely.
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I didn't know homophobes hated checkers players. You learn a knew thing every day.

On a more serious note. Why don't the serious news media boycott the administration? Don't have any interviews with pathological liars like Kellyanne, and when you report on their actions, prefix all the names with "pathological liar" or some variation thereon.
 
Fast Eddie B said:
No, but Denmark has dikes.

I know because I checked!
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Don't come to Denmark if you are a true dike aficionado. We don't have that many dikes. Netherlands is the place to go to if you really like dikes.

Actually the same may be true for dykes.. I don't know for sure.
 
ddt said:
On a more serious note. Why don't the serious news media boycott the administration? Don't have any interviews with pathological liars like Kellyanne, and when you report on their actions, prefix all the names with "pathological liar" or some variation thereon.
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CNN, at least, rejected an offer to have Conway appear after the "Bowling Green Massacre" stuff happened.
 
A'isha said:
Oh, well.
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We just have to accept that cable news would cover a deflating soufflé if it meant ratings would go up. The Trump admins strong support among cable news' core audience (geriatrics) means they are going to be on there.
 
ddt said:
On a more serious note. Why don't the serious news media boycott the administration? Don't have any interviews with pathological liars like Kellyanne, and when you report on their actions, prefix all the names with "pathological liar" or some variation thereon.
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I would think "pathological liar" was both a libel and a diagnosis, so they'd need to prove it in court or suffer serious financial loss. However, I see no reason why they couldn't say, for example, "Kellyanne Conway, well-known for her infamous references to the imaginary Bowling Green Massacre and her coining of the term "alternative facts", today issued a statement that 73% of Mexican immigrants are known rapists. This was backed up by Sean Spicer, well known for the false claim that the crowds at President Trump's inauguration were larger than those at President Obama's. There is no reason to suspect this latest claim is any more true."

In fact, that's pretty close to what the BBC is doing already.

Dave
 
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