Journalists (writers and editors) depend on insiders as sources for background, facts relevant to the story, and often direct quotes. Many media critics characterizes this relationship as sources selling access in exchange for favorable reporting. Get your story from the cop at the crash scene, write around what the source said, and file the story. Job done. The cops themselves are car dependent themselves are disposed to believing the driver's point of view, while journalists are also car dependent, so they are disposed to believing the cop for the same reason the cop believes other drivers. And the journalist needs the cop as a source. Now you are providing data to the journalist that conflicts with how they do their jobs and conflicts with the narratives of their sources. "It's hard to get someone to understand something when their salary depends on them misunderstanding it."
I think it inevitably boils down to they are drivers themselves and have a vested personal interest in not seeing parking reduced! Much like the vaunted small business owner who drives into work believes a bike lane will do nothing but demolish their business.
Journalists (writers and editors) depend on insiders as sources for background, facts relevant to the story, and often direct quotes. Many media critics characterizes this relationship as sources selling access in exchange for favorable reporting. Get your story from the cop at the crash scene, write around what the source said, and file the story. Job done. The cops themselves are car dependent themselves are disposed to believing the driver's point of view, while journalists are also car dependent, so they are disposed to believing the cop for the same reason the cop believes other drivers. And the journalist needs the cop as a source. Now you are providing data to the journalist that conflicts with how they do their jobs and conflicts with the narratives of their sources. "It's hard to get someone to understand something when their salary depends on them misunderstanding it."
I think it inevitably boils down to they are drivers themselves and have a vested personal interest in not seeing parking reduced! Much like the vaunted small business owner who drives into work believes a bike lane will do nothing but demolish their business.