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What is a topic you know a lot about that the media often gets terribly wrong? (lemmies.world)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Except politics of course. We all know everyone else is wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I don't think this was ever meant as a description of the substance, but location. Like, you wouldn't say someone is waiting on the concrete or "I drove down the asphalt with my car".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

...what? But you wouldn't say tarmac either for your example. Youd say road.

If it's about location then they should say runway, taxiway, gate, hangar, etc.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

...what? But you wouldn't say tarmac either for your example. Youd say road.

Yeah, that's the point. "Tarmac" does not refer to the substance, because pretty much nowhere else would you describe the position of a person or object by the substance it's standing on. It's just a generalized term for "where planes go bssshhwww", whether that's the taxiway or whatever isn't relevant in these cases.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I don't really care that it's a generalized term for where the planes go. My comment was about how it's just wrong. Nobody in the aviation industry calls it tarmac. It's what journalists call it when they can't be bothered to learn the right terminology.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

For the record people in my area do actually call their driveway "the asphalt" and I have heard them call it such even if it literally was not asphalt so ymmv lol