I just saw a news story on the idiot box about a truck driver that was involved in four separate accidents in Tampa yesterday resulting in the death of one person. They named the intersection where the fatality occurred and something just hit me as wrong about the story.
A bit of quick Googling for the news story both cleared it up as well as angered me a bit. The 'truck driver' wasn't a trucker at all but was a guy driving a pickup. The way the story was given on the newscast gave the distinct impression that this truck was a big rig and not a pickup. They never used the word pickup once, but instead used the words truck and truck driver.
I really despise these people. I guess they felt it would seem more sensational if they gave people the impression it was a rig by using more vague language and avoiding using the words pickup truck. A person driving a pickup is not a truck driver, they are the driver of a truck, or the driver of a pickup truck.
When people hear or read the words truck driver, they automatically envision someone at the wheel of an 18 wheeler and these asshats know that perfectly well. They didn't directly lie, they just seemed to go out of their way to use language that would lead someone to a false impression of what happened.
It's no damn wonder we have such a poor public image as the media seems to go out of their way to propagate it. And they wonder why most of us have no respect for the media.