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Some of your reporters writing tech articles appear not to be particularly tech-savvy. In the June 11 front-page article on digital television ["Digital TV Ready to Rule the Tube, Leaving Some Viewers in the Dark"], Kim Hart wrote about "the biggest change in television viewing since the advent of Technicolor."
Technicolor was a system of making color motion pictures by superimposing the three primary colors to produce a final colored print. What does Technicolor have to do with the advent of color television?
In the June 10 Economy and Business article "House Approves Incentives for Trading in Gas-Guzzlers," about the new U.S. cash-for-clunkers program, Kendra Marr, V. Dion Haynes and Thomas Heath forgot to inform the readers what fuel economy, as rated by the Environmental Protection Agency, they were referring to. Did they mean EPA city, EPA highway, or an average of the two? The distinction was in neither the story nor the graphic. Not a trivial omission.
Also, the article should have mentioned whether one can trade in from one category to another, e.g., trade in a lower-mileage passenger car for a higher-mileage sport-utility vehicle, or vice versa.
-- Gary Irons
Marriottsville, Md.
