Posts tagged Windshield Perspective
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Outrage against enforcement is unsafe at any speed
Over the past few issues of themail@dcwatch, longtime DC activist Gary Imhoff has defended speeding as acceptable behavior on city streets. On September 13, he referenced a Washington Times editorial which noted that the District’s speed and red-light cameras issued slightly more than double the number of tickets they did two years ago. The editorial also complained about… Keep reading…
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Washington Post transportation coverage has improved
This spring, the Washington Post reorganized its newsroom, reassigning reporters and editors and shaking up the way the organization operates. Now that a few months have passed, it seems that at least in transportation, the change has improved the paper’s coverage. Keep reading…
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Bus driver experiences “windshield perspective”
by Antonio López Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Around and about the Beltway
Wheaton is smart; Hyattsville is getting smarter; East County loses again; Tuss recovers from EDJS, CCT still ailing; Don’t carpool; you might cost Virginia money; The best car; Good ol’ WSJ; What do futures traders know about oil?. Keep reading…
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Traffic increases, along with Post traffic reporting quality
A Texas Transportation Institute study says that traffic has increased in the Washington area. Annapolis-based Post reporter Ashley Halsey III, who took over the regional traffic beat in the Post’s recent reorganization, covers the issue this morning, in a nicely balanced article that avoids assuming that more freeways is the only solution, or casting the issue in terms… Keep reading…
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Suburban stereotypes pollute Post, WBJ reporting
Journalists writing “news” stories strive to make their articles impartial, but hidden biases about suburbs, cities, traffic and transportation often creep in. The Washington Business Journal, for example, reported on the Eastern Market Metro Plaza proposals, and explained the options in a straightforward manner. Yet the first sentence reads, “In case… Keep reading…
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Tom Craig picks up “angry driver” mantle from Weiss
Have the Washington Post’s editors already reassigned Eric Weiss’s responsibilities? Just one day after we broke the news that Weiss was leaving the Post, fellow metro reporter Tim Craig took the old, already-reported story of DC’s planned increase in ticket enforcement and bust out with a full-throated blast of Entitled Driving Journalist Syndrome. Keep reading…
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Eric Weiss leaves Washington Post
A tipster just passed along the (unconfirmed) Keep reading…
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Entitled Driving Journalist Syndrome reaches epidemic at WTOP
Public health researchers have been tracking a variant of “road rage” in the Washington region, surfacing as a recent outbreak of Entitled Driving Journalist Syndrome (EJDS), a close cousin of Entitled Driver Syndrome. The latest reporter to fall victim to this nasty bug is WTOP’s Adam Tuss. Those of you who drive have probably caught a mild version of EDS. Keep reading…
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I-66 widening vote increases ire in Eric Weiss’s head
Whenever a local government makes a decision, some people are inevitably disappointed or even upset. When the disappointed people are drivers, Post reporter Eric Weiss is there to defend them with an article about how drivers and non-drivers are at “war” or “inflamed.” Keep reading…