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Just read any headline after a collision and weep. For instance if a driver fails to yield and causes a cyclist to drive into it, the headline will most likely
by matsemann 5y ago
Just read any headline after a collision and weep. For instance if a driver fails to yield and causes a cyclist to drive into it, the headline will most likely read any of:
Cyclist hits car (implicitly blaming the cyclist). Car and cyclist involved in accident (an accident, nothing anyone could do, nothing to learn here). Cyclist hurt after car failed to yield (at least getting the story straight, but still the driver isn't mentioned, as if the car is acting on its own and the driver is a passive innocent person). Cyclist hit by car (no, again it's making the active part passive, it should read Car hits cyclist if so).
https://www.camcycle.org.uk/magazine/newsletter110/article8/ https://www.camcycle.org.uk/magazine/newsletter110/article8/
- jasonwatkinspdx 5y agoYeah, 100% this. There was a local incident here where a driver intentionally drove his car into someone walking to a protest, and our big paper (owned and operated out of Orange county) wrote it up using the whole passive voice and accident headline. It was attempted murder and they still did that nonsense.