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On Bicycle Coverage and Media Bias

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Feb 11, 2011 | 30 Comments

Since I’ve been producing Streetfilms (at last count, 196 of them), rarely do I come across work in our field that I find monumentally enlightening, savvy, or high-caliber. But the latest blog post from David Hembrow’s “A View from the Cycle Path…” contains an embedded video produced by Mark Wagenbuur that left me in awe. […]

Victim’s Mother Shames CBS2 for Using Traffic Death to Bolster Carl Kruger

By Ben Fried | Feb 10, 2011 | 27 Comments

Last December, Sonia King lost her son Jason after a truck driver backed up illegally and ran over him while he was in the crosswalk on Madison Avenue at 81st Street, walking to work. The next month, she watched a Marcia Kramer segment on CBS2 about State Senator Carl Kruger’s bid to ban walking while […]

Daily News to Cyclists: You Don’t Count

By Ben Fried | Feb 8, 2011 | 17 Comments

In today’s Daily News, cartoonist Bill Bramhall continues the paper’s recent assault on Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and the city’s efforts to make biking safer. He manages to simultaneously imply that New Yorkers who bike are a freakish spectacle and that they don’t exist. According to the most recent Department of Health survey, more than […]

In Attack on Sadik-Khan, the Daily News Can’t Get Its Facts Straight

By Ben Fried | Feb 7, 2011 | 6 Comments

It looks like the Daily News could use some fact checkers for their weekend editorials. While the Daily News editorial staff has done some bravura work on transit funding, their DOT hit job this Sunday is riddled with more errors than a paranoid rant from the keyboard of Steve Cuozzo. In a bid to discredit […]

CBS2 Must Stop Reporting While Driving

By Ben Fried | Jan 31, 2011 | 38 Comments

The local news promo you’re watching was broadcast on CBS2 last week to tout their “amazing new technology” — Mobile2. What is Mobile2? According to the promo, it’s “a fleet of units covering the entire Tri-State area” so that viewers at home can literally get the windshield perspective on what’s going on outside. Basically, CBS2 […]

Conflict-Hungry Press Ignoring New Yorkers With Street Safety Expertise

By Ben Fried | Jan 27, 2011 | 62 Comments

The latest bike story ricocheting around the local media is Mayor Bloomberg’s reaction to a crowd in the Rockaways that reportedly booed the mention of bike lanes. David Seifman at the Post ran with it yesterday. Adam Lisberg at the Daily News picked up on it today. And NY1 managed to work it into a […]

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