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Started watching it.
Got 5mins in and couldn't even be fucked being outraged.
It was piss poor, and shouldn't be given any part of the wider debate around cycle safety and road share. In fact, it shouldn't even be referred to as a documentary.
A delightful piece of Daily Mail style trolling by the BBC.
Meanwhile on the streets of London and other cities of the UK cyclists go about their business. I was even greeted with a "safe journey mate" from a cabbie this morning when I leveled with his open window.
It happens all the time.
Some time ago it was knife crime, then it was legal highs, then sommat else.
Lazy journos latch on to an extreme half story and report it as it's a norm.
I forget where, but someone on here put it quite rightly in saying;
This is what the media does ALL the time. It's only when the subject is a topic that you know and care quite a lot about that you realise it's all ball. (paraphrased)