. . . Compared to other areas of technology, reporters and writers have a level of familiarity with firearms that should embarass them as a profession . . . This really only applies to writers who might touch on subjects that involve guns . . .
Really? There was just a news story about some "artist" planning to float a 1000 foot, lighter than air banana some 20 miles over Texas . . . in
geostationary orbit. Hmmmm . . . .
Writers on TV crime shows have lab techs extracting DNA from contaminated evidence in minutes - just mix up a sample in a test tube, put it in a machine, push a button - bingo, case solved. (And it's not supposed to be science fiction.)
I remember reading a mystery once where the driver of a car killed the engine because he missed the clutch pedal . . . even though he was driving a car that had never been made with anything BUT an automatic transmission.
And who can forget reading that, if the skin of an airliner should suffer a small puncture, the passengers would be squeezed out like toothpaste?
Don't forget the almost-daily nonsense about manmade global warming, either.
It's not always a political agenda at work . . . reporters and many writers are just, well
ignorant about the way things work, with a level of ignorance on, well, nearly everything that ought to be embarassing.