Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Media Watch

Brian Williams Doesn’t Get How Streets Work. Will His Four Million Viewers?

By Ben Fried | Dec 6, 2011 | 32 Comments

Here’s the profile of New York City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan that aired on “Rock Center with Brian Williams” last night. The show reaches more than four million people, which isn’t enough to win its time slot but adds up to a lot more eyeballs than the print circulation of any NYC daily paper. In […]

At Last, a Times Critic Gets It: NYC Is Best Absorbed From a Bike

By Charles Komanoff | Nov 8, 2011 | 5 Comments

The Arts Section of today’s Times leads with a gorgeous meditation on cycling in New York that is so unabashedly positive, it’ll take your breath away. At least it took mine. In my 50 years as a Times reader — nearly 40 of them as a daily bicycle rider — I can’t recall any essay […]

NYPD: Contrary to the Tabs, Fallen Cyclist Nicolas Djandji Didn’t Run a Red

By Brad Aaron | Sep 8, 2011 | 22 Comments

While it’s common for the media to find a fallen New York cyclist responsible for his own death, the egregiously sloppy coverage of the crash that killed Nicolas Djandji makes plain just how eager reporters and editors are to blame the victim. The prevailing narrative has it that last Friday, September 2, at approximately 8:30 […]

Janette Sadik-Khan: Bridge-Fixing Fanatic

By Brad Aaron | Sep 7, 2011 | 2 Comments

Matt Chaban at the Observer has filed a balanced, thorough and, dare we say, mature profile of Janette Sadik-Khan. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s definitely worth a read. Eschewing the pat cars vs. bikes conceit, and with nary a mention of the commissioner’s sartorial preferences, Chaban examines NYC DOT spending and wonders why […]

“Stop Means Stop”: Vacca Gives Thumbs-Up to Busy Red Light Cameras

By Brad Aaron | Aug 22, 2011 | 53 Comments

We’ll overlook the number of contortions performed by the Daily News to make today’s report on the success of red light cameras look like a “he said she said” story. It’s simply not a surprise when the city press corps assigns comparable weight to the wishes of motorists to break the law with impunity and […]

What We Learned From the Daily News Bike Lane Debate

By Ben Fried | Aug 16, 2011 | 44 Comments

Earlier today I participated in a live chat debate on the topic of bike lanes, hosted and moderated by Celeste Katz. The chief sparring partner for supporters of bike lanes was Alex Nazaryan, who sits on the paper’s editorial board and joined a group of cyclists for an uneventful ride across the Manhattan Bridge the […]

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