the luka trade was revenge of the bosses

The production value dropped off a cliff too. What is this, Wheel of Time??

Qui-Gon stoically explaining that even an incredibly deferential Supreme Court won't stand for trade disruptions

Episode 2 is maybe a worse film, but nothing can make me feel as bad as leaving the theater after Episode 1 did.

what!!!!

The Lions v Commanders is actually politics so it's 3 out of 5 for discourse

Don't bring me down...... Dick

We agree fully about bias and I feel like you're not hearing me say that I agree with you about bias. When you say that it's in the style guide or edit meetings or ad sales, enforced as a directive: no. It's pervasive bias.

I'm saying I agree with you about that bias but I disagree that there's some actual mechanism for training it or enforcing it in the newsroom. There isn't, it's ignorance.

There's no style guide for this kind of headline though! I acknowledge the bias but I'm saying it's not explicit. There's no policy or rule that says, Write headlines to favor drivers. There's not a financial incentive at work.

Hanlon's razor: It's more likely incompetence than malice. People writing those chyrons for broadcast affiliates are young, inexperienced and unlikely to buck at longstanding newsroom style. I was one of those editors for a local affiliate in my 20s (and I biked to work).

Having worked in a lot of newsrooms I think the bias is more like conventions that go unchallenged. There's a way of writing headlines reinforced by decades of practice. It takes effort to get newsrooms to address biases that they don't even think about

No argument with your advocacy for safer streets but I think you'd be hard pressed to find examples of newsrooms changing their coverage because of ads from auto makers or car dealers. The bias is real but it's not a business decision.

Yeah for Thanksgiving