The other side of the argument

Recently, i have come across a couple of articles that argue that UAVs are doing more harm than good. Both of these articles give statistics of crashes that have been caused by human error as well as malfunctions in the systems themselves. They also give statistics of deaths that the missle-equipped predators have caused. One tactic that i saw in the article by David Zucchino was that not only does he list facts, but he throws in words of his own to describe the facts. In doing this, he alters the information to give the feeling that he wants his readers to have regarding this information. For instance, he gives an example of how technicians retrofitted some UAVs with "off -the-shelf equipment at Radio Shack and Best Buy." The fact is that they got equipment from Radio Shack and Best Buy. When he adds the words "off-the-shelf", it gives the reader the impression that it is crummy equipment when in fact their equipment is the same type of equipment used in many military applications.

http://www.ncjolt.org/blog/2010/04/09/drones-under-attack-congress-debate-use-uavs-war-terror-0

http://www.homeland1.com/homeland-security-products/unmanned-aerial-vehicles-uav/articles/847069-accident-reports-show-us-drone-aircraft-plagued-with-problems