The usual emphasis by the local rag

[wafflycat]

Artilce in the EDP online
http://www.edp24.co.uk/content/edp2...=xDefault&itemid=NOED16 May 2010 11:17:52:770

Cyclist seriously injured. Note the emphasis:-

"Motorists heading in and out of Norwich faced delays today after the crash on the A1067 Drayton High Road close to the entrance of the Royal Norwich Golf Club."

Sigh.... this is the local rag's usual stance. 'cyclist injured so motorists face delays!'

 

[thomas]

To be fair, whenever I've seen any other incidents (cars, or whatever), it's pretty much the same.

They're not really anti-anything.

Had a guest lecture from someone at the paper (they were a little bit boring to be honest , but he said that as a paper they'd changed from a paper which fusses to a paper that spreads good news (as much as possible obviously). I think that he was being reasonably accurate though, as I've not seen any anti-cyclists, or anti-such group type articles like you do from some local rags.

 

[wafflycat]

The local rag isn't 'anti-cycling' and thankfully there's not a lot of cycling injuries/deaths reported. But the 'delays to motorists' is the normal state of emphasis. When Zak Carr got killed cycling, there was much complaint about the 'delays to motorists' type-comments.. and not just from me.

 

[sheddy]

I think journos use this as padding. Does anyone read a paper to get traffic updates - er no