micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility @lemmy.world Nooodel @lemmy.world 4w ago

Public service news agency falsely stating that most accidents with pedelecs are fatal. Statistics they cite say it's 0.8%

www.zdf.de Fahrsicherheitstraining für Senioren auf dem E-Bike

Wie man Unfälle mit E-Bike und Pedelec vermeiden kann, lernt man bei einem Fahrsicherheitstraining. So verringert man Risiken im Straßenverkehr.

So... That was quite a surprise, here's the link to the statistics: Link

188 fatalities out of nearly 24k accidents don't qualify as 'most cases end deadly'. I don't want to speculate as to how someone can misread a statistic that significantly while writing an article for a public service news site. But the damage of such false narratives is considerable.

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ZDF is a public service broadcaster, but not a governmental broadcaster.
- As an uneducated Eastern European, what is the difference? Honest question, I come from a political culture where what TASS is doing is normal.
  
  I see at least two criteria:
  
  financing,
  
  board.
  
  According to the Wikipedia article about the ZDF:
  
  Financing:
  
  financed by a license fee
  
  receives income from sponsorships, programming and advertising sales
  
  Board:
  
  Director general - technically independent
  
  Supervising board - includes 5 representatives of the federal states, 1 of the federal republic of Germany
  
  Television board - includes 16 representatives of the states of Germany, 2 of the federal republic of Germany, 6 members nominated by the federal states
  
  So, it's dependent on the government. Means politics could have influence on programmes.
- Thanks for the correction, never tried to translate that before. Headline and text edited accordingly
  
  So like the BBC?

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