Active Shooter In Jersey City; 2 Gunmen Shooting At Cops, 1 Officer Down

[.455_Hunter]

Standoff I remember being applied to things like assholes in a house/bank/store vs cops outside. I absolutely do not understand the "active shooter" dislike, if there's a shooting in progress and you don't have the other info (aside from shooting in progress and location) about what happened, do you not report there's something going on? This is really one of the benefits to instant/24hr news, people can be informed of a dangerous situation in real time. Now that details are available, it's widely being described as "shooting" or "shootout".

That's OK. We can disagree. I have similar feelings on the term "wildfire", used both to headline a wind-driven, exponentially growing forest fire and a quarter acre smoky grass fire barely keeping itself burning. To the media, they are exactly the same.

[eddiememphis]

I have similar feelings on the term "wildfire"...

In a blizzard he was lost, on a cold Nebraska night.
She ran calling Wildfire!