Well tonight, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the “CBC”, is reporting
An estimated 1,000 bicycle-riding members of Critical Mass again disrupted Friday’s rush hour traffic in Vancouver in the latest of the group’s planned monthly protests to promote urban bike use.
Instead of sending the CBC a letter to point out the inaccuracy, I thought I’d write it up here.
The unusual, the special nature, what you cannot miss about Critical Mass rides, and what is really quite easy to find out, and what makes it different from many other similar happenings, is that:
- they are not a group with membership
- they are not organized
- they are not a protest (movement)
- they are not demonstrations.
They are just rides that happen in the evening of the last Friday of each month. There is no agreed upon route. There is no leader. There are no “members of Critical Mass”.
And if a journalist writes about Critical Mass and doesn’t find that out then they haven’t done their homework. It’s really not that hard!
Here’s what wikipedia says about Critical Mass Rides.
Here’s an informal wiki about critical mass rides.
It would appear that some folks don’t think the CBC has creds. Our raoids are tuned to the CBC all day. Their news is more factual than other stations,Anna marie can’t be bullied by any politicain on her morning show.and by gosh their senior weather person Claire, knows her job. Yes they have a couple of TV shows that are not to my liking but the guy interviewing Bill knows his stuff.And of course the harperites want to shut down the CBC,just as the Liberals tried to do a few years back, and that will only happen if many of us let it happen. By the way, statistically as of Sunday noon, the NDP and the Harper gang are close enough to be in the rage of who knows what is going to happen.We will all be experts Monday evening (late)