On 10/16/2012 11:20 PM, Jym Dyer wrote:
[Also Posted to ebbc-talk and sfbike]

=v= I'd say this is a new low. The _San_Francisco_Chronicle_
milked an extremely rare bike/ped death for six weeks. Long
after they'd run out of facts, they published speculations,
but eventually they ran out of stuff to make people angry
about bicyclists.

=v= Here's what they ran yesterday:

Hayward cyclist hits, kills pedestrian:
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/articl...edestrian-394\
7749.php

If you follow the link, the story is about a MOTORcyclist.
Never before in my life have I seen "cyclist" to mean somebody
on a motorcycle. (I've certainly seen "biker" for bicyclist,
but that's entirely different.)
_Jym_


It sells newspapers (and drives web clicks) so who cares if it is true?

Unfortunately that seems to be the motto of not only the Chronicle but a
sizable number of the other local news outlets. And nothing seems to
aggravate readers (outside of politics) more then an article about "bad"
bicycle riders. I see the same mentality over here in the East Bay with
the Contra Costa Times. We appear to threaten a few but very vocal
cagers for some reason.


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