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How Lazy Coverage of Pedestrian Deaths Obscures Why Streets Are So Dangerous
Journalists should be more skeptical of police accounts of pedestrian deaths.
August 9, 2018
No, “Drunk Walking” Is Not Causing the Rise in Pedestrian Deaths
A new report from PBS News Hour violates the most basic precepts of good journalism in a pathetic attempt to pin the rise in pedestrian fatalities on people who drink and walk.
July 9, 2018
L.A. Times Editorial Raises Double Standards on Traffic Deaths vs. Gun Deaths
L.A. electeds, including councilmember Mitch O'Farrell decry gun violence, but are ok with traffic violence
April 5, 2018
How Coverage of Pedestrian Fatalities Dehumanizes Victims and Absolves Drivers
An analysis of news headlines in Canada identified rhetorical patterns that deflect culpability from drivers.
March 28, 2018
L.A. City Council and Media Are Getting the Bicyclist Lawsuit Stories Wrong
The L.A. Times, KCET, and L.A. City Councilmember Mitch Englander are wrong in their characterization of recent bike lane lawsuits.
February 7, 2018
Popular Support for Bike Lanes Is Precisely the Problem for Atlanta Columnist Bill Torpy
A plan to put an extra-wide suburban Atlanta thoroughfare on a road diet, adding protected bike lanes in the process, has come under fire from a local columnist with an unhealthy vendetta against people who ride bikes.
April 26, 2017
A Swedish Transit Agency Cuts Through the Autonomous Car Hype
This great ad spoofs driverless car hype.
March 30, 2017
Ad Nauseum: L.A. County DPSS Thinks Bicycling Is Scary
Nothing quite says "life gets rough" the way bicycling does, right? Except maybe car crashes.
March 21, 2017
Stop Already with the “Cap-and-Trade Is Dead” Business
Some members of the mainstream media seem to be enjoying a good rip on California's climate change policies, especially its cap-and-trade program, heralding its imminent collapse and describing Governor Jerry Brown as desperate and “nervous” about whether he can save it.
August 19, 2016