Media bias against light truck owners

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You are correct. It is a smaller sized media market here, and we get these "minor league" reporters trying to climb. I have no problem at all with that.

What I have a problem with is the clear bias in vehicle descriptions they tend to use. The reporter quickly got agitated when I politely asked about the tactics used. He could not produce any real answer, LOL.
 
Originally Posted By: cb_13
There are many aggressive driving mongoloids out there who own light trucks. The worst in my area are the high school kids with a diesel 3/4 or 1 ton and the soccer moms who figure a 4 door truck will hold up better to all the things they wreck into than their old minivan did. There are bad drivers in all ages, genders and types of vehicle but these are the ones that stand out most often to me. They give every owner of a light truck a bad reputation. Myself included.


LOL over here it's small car drivers, especially Honda rice car drivers. They love to speed and cut everyone off if they have the chance and put others at risk. As someone who drives mostly drives trucks it puts me in a really bad position.
 
Originally Posted By: gfh77665
Originally Posted By: simple_gifts
I'm supposed to believe your local news biases are the fault of other areas of the country? Your governor is out in other states courting them to move their businesses to TX; you can't have it both ways.


I really don't care what you believe. You clearly just demonstrated your bias and hostility against the rural south, and the economic success we enjoy here.

Thanks for proving my point!


?; All I'm pointing out is if you make attracting people from other parts of the country part of your economic success story, plan on having their norms and mores as part of the deal.
 
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Nope, not as long as their "norms and mores" are clearly biased on camera to our viewers. They can think & believe in whatever agenda they want to their own time. Thats called "professionalism".
 
I believe in matching a vehicle to its use. So many pickups with no hitch and not a scratch on them.Basically a hard on gas car.
I also have noticed over the years,That when it starts to snow,Trucks wreck first. A truck with an empty bed is easy to spin out. Yes, newer trucks are better,And crazy expensive. An old truck for a truck kind of duties. A car for daily getting to work.
My opinion, and I get lots of hate for it. I just use a utility trailer to haul stuff. I'm an ex trucker with a million and a half miles over the road. If you really need a truck.I'm with you.Else wise its a waste. I know you have the right to do what you want.
People have some strange love affair with pickups.
 
I don't care what anybody else drives. Their so-called "strange love affair" is none of my business whatsoever. Drive whatever you like and anyone that doesn't like it can go pound sand.
In the lowest level of eternal torment.
I HATE hand-wringing bedwetters who think that they know what is best for everyone else.
 
Originally Posted By: MCompact
I don't care what anybody else drives. Their so-called "strange love affair" is none of my business whatsoever. Drive whatever you like and anyone that doesn't like it can go pound sand.
In the lowest level of eternal torment.
I HATE hand-wringing bedwetters who think that they know what is best for everyone else.


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There's a bias on this forum against trucks. If someone bought a Hellcat, most would gush with joy over the car. If someone bought a Raptor, most would gush with negative comments. Why would the media be different?
 
You sound surprised that the media have sensationalized a subject.

I'm not usually one to quote Don Henley....more of a Mojo Nixon kinda' guy. But:

It's interesting when people die
Give us dirty laundry
 
Originally Posted By: cb_13
There are many aggressive driving mongoloids out there who own light trucks. The worst in my area are the high school kids with a diesel 3/4 or 1 ton and the soccer moms who figure a 4 door truck will hold up better to all the things they wreck into than their old minivan did. There are bad drivers in all ages, genders and types of vehicle but these are the ones that stand out most often to me. They give every owner of a light truck a bad reputation. Myself included.


There are many aggressive driving mongoloids in all types of vehicles. I see more rage/bad driving from people who are not in pickups to be honest.

There are so many trucks here that they don't really fit a certain stereotype, though I'm sure many still assume they do. Around here, it could be a "typical" mouth breathing redneck driving one, or it could be a Sikh who wasn't even born in 'Murica. I don't know an Indian package store owner who doesn't have an F-150.

I haven't noticed much of a media bias here, but I don't closely watch the local news. I don't doubt for a second that the bias is out there though. Pickup owners are an easy target. Someone to point the finger at and rage at. Nobody ever asks a small car owner to justify their purchase, whether or not they need it. Happens all the time with pickups though, at least on the interwebs.

The anti-pickup bias also close-mindedly assumes that all pickup owners only drive pickups and are looking for trees to kill. My parents have a Civic Hybrid in the driveway...next to their 4.0L Ranger. They are all for a 50 MPG hwy car, but nothing replaces a good pickup.
 
Originally Posted By: gfh77665
I live in south TX, which is pretty conservative. There are probably more PU's on the road than cars, since it is rural and the oil & gas, construction, and farming industries are the main employers.

Our media, though, is another matter. Many times we get imported news reporters from the north, or east or west coastal locations, and they seem to at times, resent trucks when reporting.

Their stories often have pictures of wrecks with them. If the driver of a pickup truck HAPPENS to be at fault, they eagerly proclaim: The PICKUP TRUCK DRIVER did such and such. When a small car or minivan is at fault, they say The driver of the first VEHICLE did such and such...

I had the opportunity to politely ask one of these reporters about this, and he got real defensive and terse, and was not able to give a coherent answer. Latent "bubba bashing" at its finest, IMO.



Man everyone's a victim. Don't be so sensitive.
 
Originally Posted By: PandaBear
I don't care what other people drive as long as they can handle the vehicle safely to themselves and others.

That said, I have seen enough things falling off truck beds and people losing control of their van / truck / SUVs to get the opinion that there are more drivers who are disqualified to drive these bigger vehicles, and should have driven cars instead.


I find myself doing the opposite in my wifes Corolla, Making wide turns, Slowing down for curves, & keeping to large a distance in front of me. So I guess I works both ways....I drive a sub compact like an 80 year old.
 
The best is to do what you like best. Your approval of yourself is what is best. As long as what you do doesn't affect me. More power to you.
I still think the average person uses a pickup like a car.
Dually trucks lowered and with no rear bumper. About drive me crazy. How about four door rice burner cars with a large rear wing?

As a matter of a fact. Any truck lowered.I almost feel ill just seeing it. But hey that's my problem. Yes,i have many.
 
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