Killer SUVs?!
I was sent off contemplation by a blog entitled "Killed by SUV" authored by Michelle Malkin posted on January 31 this year. It is funny how media depicts vehicles today. It is as if they have mind and personality of their own. They have intention, will and motivation.
In that same blog it exposes a WNBC headline which reads: Man In Wheelchair Struck, Killed by SUV In Bronx. According to the headline the man was killed by SUV and not by its driver. How unrealistic!
The report continues: Police said 41-year-old Juan Jimenez was crossing Broadway near 230th Street at about 5:44 p.m.when a late model black Mitsubishi SUV hit him and pinned him under the vehicle with the wheelchair. The vehicle then fled the scene, leaving Jimenez in the street.
Another example is an NBC10.com news: Police say out-of-control SUV killed blind woman. Police say a blind woman was struck and killed and two other people were hurt when a sport utility vehicle slammed into them.
SUV's now are treated by the media as persons since they can hit, kill and flee. Is this a strategy to camouflage the recklessness and negligence of the drivers? Or is this a form of denial of people's malfeasance?
For me this is an implied denial of responsibility over the accident or incident. If this is to be done by the media for a longer period of time, this can gradually motivate people not to be mindful of the responsibilities conferred them. They can easily delegate the blame to things around them.
I agree with Malkin when she said SUV's kill like guns do now. Actually we can also say that media can add knife, razors, medicines and other objects to the list of things to blame in cases of death and accident.
It is quite obvious that the press is blaming SUV for a person's failure. It is trying to point out that the driver is not responsible for any damage, injury or death because the cold metal machine called SUV has become too powerful to have done it.
Media focuses on the objects not the intent of the person behind it neither the act itself. It could have been: Knife fatally wounded a boy or Gun kills a bum. You may think that the writer has gone nuts or something. But if we do not correct this at this point in time this can develop into tolerance of a mistake which can later on be accepted by the people.
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