Earlier this week the 2009 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded. The New York Times and Matt Richtel took home the National Reporting prize for their Distracted Driving series which openly campaign for banning the use of cell phones in cars.
This particular series relies almost exclusively on tragic anecdotes and technophobic scaremongering. The data presented in the [...]
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They give out Pulitzer Prizes for this? [distracted driving]
The graph the New York Times doesn’t want you to see
This post has been getting a huge amount of search-engine traffic recently. Thank you for the visits! If you’re looking for more data on the dangers (or lack thereof) of cell phones in cars, check out this post as well.
Regular readers of this blog will know that the New York Times is waging a sensationalistic campaign to [...]
Yellow Journalism Watch: New York Times continues its assault on the freedoms of motorists
For a paper based in the most pedestrian-oriented city in the country, the editors at the New York Times sure have it in for America’s motorists. For the last few weeks, the Times has been running a series called “Driven to Distraction” about the extreme dangers purportedly posed by motorists who chat on their cell [...]
