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Permalink Reply by Vilda on April 25, 2011 at 9:44am

I've been doored. Let's see where this rabbit hole leads.

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Permalink Reply by Juan 2-3 or more mi. on April 25, 2011 at 1:31pm

Just hang out along Milwaukee Ave. You are bound to find someone, getting doored.

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Permalink Reply by Tank-Ridin' Ryan on April 25, 2011 at 2:00pm

I see reporting has sunk to the level of Twitter.  Lovely.

 

Ace, I think you need to change the heading to "FoxChicago looking for doored riders for story in 140 characters or less" :)

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Permalink Reply by Dubi Kaufmann on April 26, 2011 at 12:46am

I agree with JT, I think it is bleeping golden opportunity. Even if the story is going to be short and full of sound bites like most news stories.

In terms of advocacy, the least effective person for a story would be someone who is not very articulate that was drunk when it happened, Did not get hurt seriously, did not seek medical attention, did not call the police, did not sue for damages, hit the windshield of the offending car with a U-lock and rode away.

Now imagine that the imaginary person above has a twitter account and wants to be on TV (Hi mom).

If you think that you can do better and your story could help educate drivers about dooring and then please do it.

 

 

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Permalink Reply by JR Clark on April 26, 2011 at 1:19am

I believe that this might be the piece that came out of this request...

 

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/dooring-cyclists-acciden...

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Doug Haynes on April 26, 2011 at 1:46am

There is NO media outlet there that will not twist your words to fit their story and if you think ANY news show is giving you the whole story you are being very naive; fox is not the only outlet to twist things to their needs.

Jeff Schneider said:

I'd stay far away from this. Nobody with an ounce of integrity could ever work for them.  If you cooperate with them in any way, you are just asking to be misrepresented/abused/used as fodder for right-wing propaganda.  They have a lot more experience abusing people than most of us have with dealing with corporate media.  The odds are stacked against you.

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Permalink Reply by Doug Haynes on April 26, 2011 at 1:53am

That was actually a good story, it was informational and did not really try to stir up and conflict.  I would have liked if it had made two things more clear:

1. That it had made it more clear that a dooring is the fault of the person opening the door; I think it was implied but it could have been stated.

2. That they had made mention people should be checking their mirror anyway because opening your door blind is a good way to get it hit my another car.  The more fear that is generated over opening a door into traffic the more likely it is to sink in with people.  The idea of hitting a cyclist with a door is no were near as likely to leave an impression on a selfish world as the idea of having your door torn off and your arm, and possibly leg, hit by a passing truck.

JR Clark said:

I believe that this might be the piece that came out of this request...

 

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/dooring-cyclists-acciden...

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on April 29, 2011 at 1:27am

I agree.  They did a decent job with this piece.

Michael Brosilow said:

Hmmm. Nice educational piece of reporting.

JR Clark said:

I believe that this might be the piece that came out of this request...

 

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/dooring-cyclists-acciden...

 

 

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