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It is interesting to observe the news media culture in operation on this crash coverage.  There is a distinct tone that the train was somehow at fault.  It seems as if a parade float is simply too virtuous to be at fault in the eyes of the news media.  My favorite line is this opening statement:  “How did a train find itself in the middle of a parade?”  The A.P. story reports a witness saying that the train came out of nowhere without warning.  The truck was “trapped,” suggesting that there was no way the crash could have been avoided.  It really makes me wonder who was driving the truck, because mention of the driver is conspicuous by its absence from the news coverage.  The driver seems to be someone the media does not want to blame.    Now, the media is announcing that the driver drove past the activated gates, and yet the media almost seems oblivious to the significance of that new detail.  They are still asking how the train found itself in the middle of the parade.
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