The problem is not that someone counted the SCIs and recorded a number. The problem is how that number is being used by the general media without context to create sensational stories. Using that number to say "mountain biking is the cause of a high rate of SCIs" is not a very informative or accurate conclusion.
CBC would not interview a group of valley skate skiers or in-bounds resort skiers about skiers dying in avalanches (well yeah, likely they would, since they could do it from a parking lot). Would the media identify all skiers as one homogeneous group (maybe?), instead of narrowing the discussion to avalanche deaths IN THE BACK-COUNTRY, .
I see this matter as more of a case of lazy journalism.
Dec. 2, 2024, 11:56 a.m. - taprider
The problem is not that someone counted the SCIs and recorded a number. The problem is how that number is being used by the general media without context to create sensational stories. Using that number to say "mountain biking is the cause of a high rate of SCIs" is not a very informative or accurate conclusion. CBC would not interview a group of valley skate skiers or in-bounds resort skiers about skiers dying in avalanches (well yeah, likely they would, since they could do it from a parking lot). Would the media identify all skiers as one homogeneous group (maybe?), instead of narrowing the discussion to avalanche deaths IN THE BACK-COUNTRY, . I see this matter as more of a case of lazy journalism.