well Jonathan, I think the marketers are successful, getting the 'bike media guy' to cover this extensively on bikeportland and give TV interviews. It also fits with the general ethos of bikeportland: get traffic by pointing out how the divide between bikes and cars is a false one. I'm beginning to think there is a divide, but it's around acting responsibly or not. I'll go think about this more and blog later. . .
- bjamin
Thank you to the Portland Mercury for this astute criticism of our sorry-ass daily paper, The Oregonian. The Mercury has never struck me as being a source for actual coverage of any event occuring in the real world, but this blog is a completely different story! Full of speedy coverage (sometimes WillyWeek wins, but if I were betting, money is on blogtown) which time and time again points out the bias from various sources of authority. I figure it's written by the same writers as the paper version, but for some reason blogtown is easier to digest.
- bjamin