Hit Piece

Linoge Links and interesting piece

FOX 2’s Murray Feldman Trains on a General Motors Assembly Line: MyFoxDETROIT.com

So a bunch of reporters (their backgrounds and hobbies unknown) show up at a UAW plant and go through an abbreviated training program, then get set lose on a mock assembly line. They totally suck it up, and then jump across any logic to say “Gee I guess UAW workers need to be grossly overpaid for basic labor.

First up this is an assembly line with nothing but “New Hire Trainees”, furthermore I wonder if the plant would hire journalism majors rather than say a guy who worked at Jiffy Lube, or Midas Mufflers and wanted to make more money.

Of course that never happens in the real world. When I worked for the federal observer program I was trained in a classroom with some field work for 2 weeks, then I did a week of fishing trips with a veteran observer, then I had to have all my work checked thoroughly before I was cleared to fly solo. And guess what? In the beginning I sucked ass! With time I became quite proficient. And this was after 4 years of college training, and over a year of similar work.

Now UAW workers are never working solo like I was, they can always have a veteran looking over their shoulder. Also NOBODY can pick up a set of complex skills in a couple of hours (not to mention I wonder if the trainers were doing an intentionally shoddy job to ensure an outcome). But of course those reporters were doing a crappy job SOBER! Many of those UAW grunts do it drunk and stoned!

Of course this reminds me of another hit-piece.
20/20 ran a piece called “If I only had a gun”, and in one segment they did a mock-up of an active shooter attack, something that civilian concealed carry would be a massive benefit.

Not wanting to let the truth get in the way of the agenda they took a bunch of college students who had never handled a gun before, and gave them a rudimentary handgun course, then gave them some bizarre carry rig, instructed them to carry the gun right at their belly-button at 12:00 (a method not used by anybody I know of) and had them “conceal” the gun with baggy cheap t-shirts.

Now to drop somebody with likely less than 20 rounds fired in their life, with an unfamiliar holster, and a poor concealment garment into an active shooter scenario is pretty stacked odds….but to ensure they got the results they wanted 20/20 had a trained SWAT officer play the part of the shooter (Not only unfair, but all the active shooters I can think of, spare Charles Whitman who was a former Marine, and an avid hunter, were people who were not good shots, or had any training) also the person chosen to carry in the mock-class was required to sit in a specific seat, one known to the “shooter”. The only way they could have made it less fair would be to have the shooter call in an air strike and level the building.

This is journalists manufacturing the news they want!