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Preconceptions of Truckers * USA - Highway Serial Killings initiative... As usual ...
... this is the kind of biased reporting that unfairly tars and feathers an entire professional class of workers with a huge negative brush
USA -Fleet Owner, by Sean Kilcarr -April 8, 2009: -- “Today, we’re publicly announcing our Highway Serial Killings initiative to raise awareness among law enforcement agencies and the general public about this issue and our unique assistance on these cases.” –from a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) press release... It makes me angry – REALLY angry – because this is the kind of biased reporting that unfairly tars and feathers an entire professional class of workers with a huge negative brush. You don’t see headlines reading “Database links Obama political appointees to tax fraud” do you? Yes, several of President Obama’s appointees owed taxes – and several withdrew from nominations as a result. Does that mean EVERY Obama political appointee is a tax cheat? Hardly. Yet here we are, broadly linking truck drivers and serial killers without a second thought... Serial killers are malignant human beings – and need to be hunted down without remorse. Yet they exist EVERYWHERE in human society. They’ve been clowns, bankers, and workers in manufacturing plants, and, yes, drivers of trucks; they are Black, White, Hispanic; they are male and female... My point here is that truck drivers are routinely portrayed in all sorts of negative contexts, without a second thought, by the general media. While this “highway serial killer” initiative from the FBI is important, it’s being misinterpreted to portray the truck driving profession as a haven for murderers... At the end of the day, it would be nice to see some balance – say, the same amount of ink and video spent highlighting Goodyear’s “Highway Heroes” program, which recognizes the heroism of truck drivers for diving into burning cars or fighting off assailants that are trying to kill police officers. But I guess the mainstream media isn’t interested in that – it would upset their preconceptions of truckers, and we can’t be having that, can we?...
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