Metro article is anti cyclist

[Mr Foldy]

Metro (Scot) on 12th Nov reports that Edinburgh police are targetting antisocial cyclists including RLJs. Their insightful headline is along the lines of Cyclists Told On Your Bike. The article complely failed to mention that Edinburgh police are as part of the same operation targetting antisocial drivers too. That would make a far less contravrsial story though!
I have contacted Metro to express my ire!

 

[Wooliferkins]

Breathe, breathe, relax, Metro is part of the Daily Wail group. Put it down and move away from sharp things.

http://aseasyasridingabike.wordpres...s-guide-to-writing-an-article-about-bicycles/

 

[MontyVeda]

if the article's about cyclists being naughty why would it mention car drivers? or skateboardists or any other nuisance other than the one they're talking about? Specifically targeting anti-social cyclists and red light jumpers is not anti-cyclist either... looks like you're looking to be offended here Mr Foldy.

 

[booze and cake]

Did the owner of the Daily Fail groups wife leave him for a fitter, dashing, more intelliegent cyclist or something? Barely a week goes by without there being an anti-cyclist story in one of their rags.

 

[HLaB]

Breathe, breathe, relax, Metro is part of the Daily Wail group. Put it down and move away from sharp things.

http://aseasyasridingabike.wordpres...s-guide-to-writing-an-article-about-bicycles/

That explains a lot, tbh I've no time for the rag; it seems to be an exact copy of the Daily Record in Scotland (another tabloid of the same ilk)

 

[Mr Foldy]

I should add that I read the exact same article elsewhere first. It was probably the press release verbatim. But it was explaining that there is an operation looking at bad cyclists and bad drivers. I have no beef at all with any of that, its just irritating that the Metro then spin it into cyclist bashing. Its unfortunate that its a free paper, I can't stop buying it!

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Metro (Scot) on 12th Nov reports that Edinburgh police are targetting antisocial cyclists including RLJs. Their insightful headline is along the lines of Cyclists Told On Your Bike. The article complely failed to mention that Edinburgh police are as part of the same operation targetting antisocial drivers too. That would make a far less contravrsial story though!
I have contacted Metro to express my ire!

and they've rubbed their hands together thinking, great another rube on the hook, they'll go and moan to their friends and well get loads of new revenue clicks form people looking to be offended by our deliberate provocation.

As a group of transport users cyclists are our own worst enemy for rising to even the most trivial of bait, its why the media keep doing it, and why when we were children I got years of enjoyment from calling my brother Fartin and watching him react.

 

[Mr Foldy]

and they've rubbed their hands together thinking, great another rube on the hook, they'll go and moan to their friends and well get loads of new revenue clicks form people looking to be offended by our deliberate provocation.

As a group of transport users cyclists are our own worst enemy for rising to even the most trivial of bait, its why the media keep doing it, and why when we were children I got years of enjoyment from calling my brother Fartin and watching him react.

You are probably right. I'm over it anyway. Don't make it right though!

 

[shouldbeinbed]

You are probably right. I'm over it anyway. Don't make it right though!

good man, far better things to lose your cool over .

When it is time for my glorious reign as benign world despot, all cyclists will be required to stand firm and refuse to respond in any way to these bulls**t headlines, the legion of imbeceils on social media, Jeremy Vine's bone idleness in repeatedly using us as filler fodder for his radio 2 show and cretins like Rod Liddle mouthing off for effect to see how long they continue to waste their time shouting into a vacuum.

 

[goo_mason]

The cyclist-bashing Edinburgh Evening News did the same thing. Full front page splash about the "police clampdown on red-light-jumping cyclists". Actual story inside revealed the true facts - PoliceScotland had launched a 2 week campaign to clamp down on bad drivers and bad cyclists. But mentioning the fact that it was drivers and cyclists being targetted is no way to create a sensationalist, cyclist-bashing headline, is it?

As I said elsewhere, the EEN is on the verge of closing down (along with the Scotsman). I won't shed a tear when it goes - it's our local version of the Daily Heil.

 

[Leodis]

RLJ'ers should be shot (unless it was me as I was clipped in and either I fell or went through)

 

[Frood42]

Newspapers

 

[HLaB]

Newspapers

Altho I think I'd go one further and say:

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