Doing Paperwork

I read with sadness about the four police officers who were murdered while drinking coffee in their morning coffee shop, yesterday.

Yet, obsessed with words as I am, I could not help noticing that several reports said the officers were sitting 'doing paperwork on their laptops'. Um, does anyone else feel this is odd? Paper is paper, and laptops are laptops.  One can do administrative tasks on a laptop, but until it's printed out it's not 'paperwork'.

The reporter's odd language choice led to...