Comments on: CBS Star’s Bike Crash Highlights Media’s Disrespect for Bicyclists

By: AVA JOHNSON

AVA JOHNSON — Fri, 07 May 2010 04:02:31 +0000

hi, sweetie this ava sorry about your accident i love you!

By: Lydia

Lydia — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:22:03 +0000

I hadn’t thought about ‘mainstream’ media’s take on celebrities in the news, but you did make me think about the mindset of the quickie news blurb and some of the indifference toward the safety of cyclists.

I hesitate to bike alongside cars because I’m petite and I’m sure many drivers wouldn’t be cognizant of my presence, no matter how careful I bike. Not to mention the kajillion (my un-mathematical term) potholes one has to negotiate.

I give credit to all the bicyclists out there braving all kinds of hazards.

By: Spokker

Spokker — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:14:09 +0000

I often make fun of car crash victims so it all evens out in the end.

By: Damien Newton

Damien Newton — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:25:41 +0000

Blech. I always seem to have a typo or two when I write stories about crashes…it’s when I’m writing at my most annoyed.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:18:22 +0000

Maybe you don’t write for ‘traditional media’ because of all the typing errors. Vaguely amusing after you mention “bad writing”.

Anyway, yes, it was a bad pun, tasteless even, but it was just that: a pun. Hardly worth six paragraphs of griping. I’m sure there are far more worthy things you could blog about.

By: Lisa Miller

Lisa Miller — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:37:21 +0000

Um, it was a joke. Get over it.

By: Joe Dunavan

Joe Dunavan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:34:49 +0000

I love that gossip sites have more information then the AP.
http://gossiplist.com/blog2/2009/08/04/shemar-moore-hurt-by-hit-and-run-driver/

“Actor Shemar Moore is in the hospital with a broken leg. Shemar was hit on southbound Sepulveda Blvd just past Royal Hills Dr. by an elderly man driving a maroon late 80’s Cadillac.

‘Shemar’s Look 595 bicycle was totalled,’ according to a passerby.”

By: bikinginla

bikinginla — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:13:43 +0000

Had Moore been killed, the media would be falling all over themselves to report the tragedy. But since he survived, the story isn’t that he was hurt cycling, but that the accident involved a celebrity.

While the mainstream media loves to do fluff pieces about the health benefits of cycling, or how more people are commuting by bike, the news departments still don’t take bikes seriously. The local media barely mentioned the three local cyclists killed by hit-and-run drunk drivers this year alone; why would they bother reporting seriously on something like this?