"The car stole our bliss 125 years ago today." Whereupon reporters established the convention that an injury to anyone outside a car indicates the absence of anyone inside a car. #DriverNotCarnyc.streetsblog.org/2024/09/13/t...
The automobile got its first taste of blood 125 years ago tomorrow — and it's never been able to kick the habit.
I want to know if attributing the action to the car instead of the driver began with this first fatality. #DriverNotCar
Excellent use of #DriverNotCar, more please!
Driver who killed Grand Island eighth grader is a juvenile buffalonews.com/news/local/a...
The Sheriff's Office, citing an ongoing investigation and the driver's age, would not release further information Friday about the driver, who has not been charged, a spokesman said in an email.
Some relevant reading on language use when reporting on traffic violence: apcompletestreets.org/journalists-...#DriverNotCar
The Columbia Journalism Review report explains how the media (and thereby police) fail to properly cover traffic collisions. #CRASHNOTACCIDENT “A middle-aged man was fatally struck by a truck.” If we ...
Every hashtag the feed uses: trafficcalming,desireroad,plowthesidewalks,quaxing,roadviolence,endparkingmandates,arroganceofspace,parkingreform,stopsuv,freetransit,carbrain,carblindness,plowsidewalkstoo,windshieldbias,cardependency,transit,drivernotcar,carsruincities,buslanes,transitsky,
Still pining for an episode on this journalism habit of denial of agency/instant exoneration, though! #DriverNotCar
Even after conviction and sentencing, passive voice & denial of agency persist. "His car was traveling 86 mph." "She was killed." #DriverNotCar#WindshieldBiasbuffalonews.com/news/local/c...
"She deserved to die an old woman in her own bed surrounded by her loved ones," Marcia Zuhlke Held, mother of Jenny Zuhlke said. "Instead, she died alone, violently, at the hands of a psycho."