[Leviathan]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5223121/Elderly-man-suffers-life-changing-injuries-collision.html

Unfortunate incident apparently due to dangerous cycling [leaning heavily on today’s survey.] Another wonderfully even handed piece of journalism from the Mail.

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[Hirsute]

Struggling to see how this is

Struggling to see how this is news…

[Simon E]

Perhaps the Daily Hate Mail

Perhaps the Daily Hate Mail should report every road collision using the same format. There were nearly 24,000 reported KSI  in 2015. That would be a lot of articles. Writing extensively each of those should fill the pages nicely, leaving sod-all room for the poisonous anti-everything bile.

[alansmurphy]

“Life changing” is their new
“Life changing” is their new little metric to make things appear terrible. If they say not life threatening people won’t care enough.

There’s probably a chart they use somewhere which starts with:

Are they foreign or wearing lycra:

If YES go to terrorism / manslaughter section subsections death, maimed, life changing, carnage

If NO use words like accident, blame inanimate objects or the sun subsection ‘in collision with’…

[don simon fbpe]

I blame Thatcher.

I blame Thatcher.

[hawkinspeter]

Spangly Shiny wrote:

It’s NOT journalism, it’s just the propagetion of an agenda. Propaganda if you like, a bit like Goebbels.

Wow – Godwinned in just 4 posts.

[Spangly Shiny]

It’s NOT journalism, it’s

It’s NOT journalism, it’s just the propagetion of an agenda. Propaganda if you like, a bit like Goebbels.

[don simon fbpe]

Quote:

His injuries are understood to be non life-threatening but may be life-changing.

What the fuck is this supposed to mean?

I was knocked off my bike by a fellow cyclist during a race. My thumb was broken and never set correctly. Prior to the accident I could open the tightest of screw top jars, I now struggle to grip screw top jars well enough to open them.

Life changing- yes, but probably not worth a mention at this stage and most inflammatory.

This piss poor journalism really MUST stop.

Happy New Year!

[Leviathan]

http://www.getwestlondon.co

http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news/west-london-news/kensington-crash-elderly-pedestrian-hospitalised-14095678

Don’t know your feelings about the Evening Standard.

[DoctorFish]

Nearly clicked on the Daily

Nearly clicked on the Daily Mail link, but noticed just in time what horror I was about to click on.  Is the same story reported anywhere more respectable?  

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