A very easy and clear example of generalised bias on an “industry” media source would be :
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A group of professionals whose principle playground is the public highway complaining about a different group of people. If you peruse some of the comment from these older posts, you’ll see several truck drivers who are also cyclists. So it’s not entirely biased.
Up until last month a growing number of motor vehicle drivers were, like pedal cyclists, not paying bo diddly squat in VED. As we all know, far too many dangerous drivers out there without insurance, and often without a valid licence. Vehicles without MOTs.
We’ve all got our horror stories of idiot cars pulling out in front us when we’re fully loaded with the Victoria and Albert Museum Glass department contents sent for cleaning. We’ve all seen other drivers scoot straight through red lights. Drivers using roads they’re prohibited from. Driving over footpaths to undercut queuing cars. In 40 plus years of driving, I think I’ve seen it all, but maybe there’s still more lunacy to experience.
So blaming cyclists for treating a stop line as a ASL, nipping across a footpath to avoid a bad roundabout or whatever, is usually not nearly as egregious an offence as some of the ■■■■■■ things drivers do. I acknowledge that a few pedestrians have been injured or killed by bad cycling. But far far fewer than by bad driving.
And lastly, while some cyclists might be just clowning around, just like a lot of boy racers do but over a wider area, the majority are just going from A to B by bike rather than car maybe because they can’t afford a car but are following Tebbit’s mantra.
And a cyclist is a human. Just as a driver is. So is it a tad biased of a trucking social media to denigrate and diminish cyclists as scum of the earth. I think so. But it happens, just as it happens on any other motoring site. And I’d imagine a few motorcycling sites may well have their focus more on truck drivers spilling diesel and idiot car drivers.
Bias everywhere, so chill out, step back, read up and make your own mind up about it all. There’s some definition of an expert I understand well from life experience.
An expert is someone who is certain of their own opinion