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September 2004
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 The Media on P Platers
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Fri, 21 January 2005 00:21
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I just watched the morning news on Channel 9.
What's her face said "Despite all the campaigning P platers continue to disregard the warnings in a string of accidents last night".
The voice over said "This Mitsubishi was seen weaving through traffic before hitting another car and spinning out. 5 people were taken to hospital but amazingly nobody was hurt. The car can be seen with that familiar plate again".
The lancer driver is a gronk and he's lucky nobody died and fair comment.
Next it's rainning somewhere in Sydney and a pedestrian lost his footing while trying to cross the road and ended up under the wheel of the car. Ummm.. what happened to the P plater driving business?
Next accident, someone was driving along and lost control at a bend and crashed into a ditch -- and what's that? No P plates!
When they do the "and coming up, P platers continue to ignore warnings.." bit I was actually thinking my God. I'm a P plater. My friends are P platers. Nobody seems to be driving any crazier, what's with this surge of people being dickheads. I was really interested in the story.
What does the media take us for? It's always been done. They mould a story to make it more interesting and make people sit up and take notice. This is no different I guess but nonetheless just as irritating 
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Location:
c'town, NSW
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May 2002
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Re: The Media on P Platers
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Fri, 21 January 2005 00:25
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solution == dont watch the news
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Banned Again
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Sydney
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January 2005
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Re: The Media on P Platers
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Fri, 21 January 2005 00:37
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I agree with thu187. Why is the media always out to portray EVERY P plater as an accident prone driver? And that article just makes me mad, as you said, where the hell is the relevence to the p platers?
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Location:
Kita-Ku, Sapporo, Japan
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January 2003
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Re: The Media on P Platers
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Fri, 21 January 2005 00:56
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meh, drivign at 110 back to sydney after i did my EFI conversion, on the Hume Hwy/M5, of the cars that overtook doing 120-130? more than half were fecking P-Platers..... that shits me. not all P drivers are fucked, but a lot have to learn what is safe.. simple as that.
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Banned Again
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Sydney
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January 2005
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Re: The Media on P Platers
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Fri, 21 January 2005 01:02
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Atleast thats not 130 on some country road.
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December 2004
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Re: The Media on P Platers
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Fri, 21 January 2005 01:52
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| rob_RA40 wrote on Fri, 21 January 2005 11:25 |
solution == dont watch the news
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as they say, no news is good news, i tend to agree 
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Location:
c'town, NSW
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May 2002
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Re: The Media on P Platers
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Fri, 21 January 2005 03:42
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yeah its pretty straight forward
news needs what?
- viewers
who watches the news?
- old people
who do old people hate?
- young people
young people are all?
- tards
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I Supported Toymods
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south Melbourne/KL
Registered:
June 2004
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Re: The Media on P Platers
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Fri, 21 January 2005 04:09
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another P plater tread 
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Location:
Sydney
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September 2004
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Re: The Media on P Platers
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Fri, 21 January 2005 04:53
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| rob_RA40 wrote on Fri, 21 January 2005 14:42 |
yeah its pretty straight forward
news needs what?
- viewers
who watches the news?
- old people
who do old people hate?
- young people
young people are all?
- tards
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LOL nice work old man rob 
and BigBen this is sort of more about the portrayal of P platers than what restrictions should be imposed on them.
Old people are crazy I tell you. Just went shopping and almost got hit by 4 old people driving and omgosh I'm walking along slowly and they are approaching perpendicular to from out of an aisle and head straight for my trolley! They don't even bother to look left and right -- just like when they drive! 
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I Supported Toymods
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south Melbourne/KL
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June 2004
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Re: The Media on P Platers
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Fri, 21 January 2005 05:02
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and i bet somebody is just gonna pop up and say stuff like "P platers should be off the road, they r hoons etc etc..."
my sympathy to P platers to have to go against the media who psycho the old ppl, and it is the old ppl that cast votes and make the laws/rules
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Location:
c'town, NSW
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May 2002
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Re: The Media on P Platers
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Fri, 21 January 2005 05:15
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| thu187 wrote on Fri, 21 January 2005 15:53 |
LOL nice work old man rob
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i get it all from old man river i tells ya!!!! 
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Banned Again
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Sydney
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January 2005
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Re: The Media on P Platers
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Fri, 21 January 2005 05:45
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Maybe we should start driving like arabs. (If you havn't seen arab drifting you won't get this)
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I Supported Toymods
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south Melbourne/KL
Registered:
June 2004
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Re: The Media on P Platers
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Fri, 21 January 2005 05:50
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cant afford to drive like arabs with the cars arabs drive 
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Banned Again
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Sydney
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January 2005
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Re: The Media on P Platers
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Fri, 21 January 2005 05:55
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No worries, buy yourself a hyundai elantra.
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Location:
Sydney
Registered:
September 2003
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Re: The Media on P Platers
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Fri, 21 January 2005 06:41
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i can't wait til i get off the damn things, only 2 more months til the plates go woohooo!!!
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Location:
Land of Oz
Registered:
June 2004
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Re: The Media on P Platers
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Fri, 21 January 2005 06:57
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Hi,
| rob_RA40 wrote on Fri, 21 January 2005 16:15 |
i get it all from old man river i tells ya!!!!
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Hey, I saw that!!!!
seeyuzz
river
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Location:
Campbelltown, NSW
Registered:
November 2004
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Re: The Media on P Platers
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Fri, 21 January 2005 07:29
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| finney wrote on Fri, 21 January 2005 17:41 |
i can't wait til i get off the damn things, only 2 more months til the plates go woohooo!!!
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lol only 2 years and 3 months till im off my P's 
WHO WANTS TO COUNT DOWN WITH ME??
NOLAN
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I Supported Toymods
Location:
south Melbourne/KL
Registered:
June 2004
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Re: The Media on P Platers
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Fri, 21 January 2005 07:51
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damn i cant remember when my intl license expire 
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Location:
Forster NSW
Registered:
September 2004
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Re: The Media on P Platers
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Fri, 21 January 2005 09:23
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| Kimber wrote on Fri, 21 January 2005 12:02 |
Atleast thats not 130 on some country road.
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But it's 130 around a lot of cars, other cars also going quick. Plus P platers are inexperienced drivers.
Remember there's a lot less P platers than people on full licenses. It's all about ratio.
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October 2004
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Location:
Sydney
Registered:
September 2003
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Re: The Media on P Platers
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Sat, 22 January 2005 03:22
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| Dale_ta22 wrote on Fri, 21 January 2005 20:23 |
Plus P platers are inexperienced drivers.
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I'm sorry but i believe that that statement is just too much of a generalisation. Some people on thier p's are quite experienced, however i think the thing which causes all this fuss is moreso overconfidence matched along with inexperience.
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Location:
Adelaide, SA
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: The Media on P Platers
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Sat, 22 January 2005 03:40
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| Kimber wrote on Fri, 21 January 2005 16:25 |
No worries, buy yourself a hyundai elantra.
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No no, but the hyundai accident!!! I mean accent....
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Location:
Toronto, Downtown
Registered:
September 2004
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August 2004
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Re: The Media on P Platers
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Mon, 24 January 2005 08:10
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[/conspiracy theory] Doesn't everybody see who started all this mess, it was the nrma lobbying to the state government nearly a year ago now to put restrictions on p platers and quickly got turned down by the government, why would nrma do this? To improve there profit rating.
As this first attempt failed i think some money changed hands from nrma to a television station ( i presume it must be channel nine as they seem to have the least journalistic integrity of them all )
And tieing in with the old people watch the news old people hate young people said tv stations rating went up. What followed was the other commercial tv stations wondering what happened to there ratings then jumped on the band wagon.
With the major tv stations saying that p platers are hell spawn this changed the gullible public opinion ( it worked for mr howard didn't it? )
Now the question i want to ask after all these machinations by the nrma come to fruit and there risk factor for insuring young drivers goes down due to restrictions, do you think they will
lower there premiums?
I would be very surprised if they do....
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Location:
The Eastwood MASSIVE !
Registered:
May 2003
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Re: The Media on P Platers
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Mon, 24 January 2005 08:14
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I'm a plater , get out of my way or I will lose control of my car and kill all around me.
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Location:
sydney
Registered:
August 2003
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Location:
Newcastle
Registered:
June 2004
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Re: The Media on P Platers
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Mon, 24 January 2005 10:33
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I have a way of taking out the anger i have for elderly people that live in my building and hate me and my loud car.
Late night Burn outs in the underground car park. Its quite the stress reliever. So if you live in a building with an underground car park. Keep it there and not on the streets.
And enough with the p plater posts.
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Location:
Newcastle
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June 2004
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Re: The Media on P Platers
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Mon, 24 January 2005 10:34
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| rob_RA40 wrote on Fri, 21 January 2005 14:42 |
yeah its pretty straight forward
news needs what?
- viewers
who watches the news?
- old people
who do old people hate?
- young people
young people are all?
- tards
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Thats a good one.
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Location:
brisbane
Registered:
August 2003
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Re: The Media on P Platers
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Mon, 24 January 2005 13:51
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Back on topic. I agree that the media bashes p platers, but it would be expected after the EVL R34 incident and a few other high profile accidents just before christmas. People take what they want from the media, but reporters always need an enemy to make a story.
If anyone's ever paid enough attention to road toll statistics given by the media, the under 25 catagory of casualities and fatalities is compared to all other age groups, but what the media dont mention is that this includes people below the age of 17, people who are passengers.
If you ever get the chance to read the book with the yearly road toll and accident reports, do it. It'll leave you with a chill down your spine and a better understanding of how the media bullshits everbody just for a story.
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Location:
Melbourne
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November 2003
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Re: The Media on P Platers
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Mon, 24 January 2005 13:57
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| silvercil40 wrote on Tue, 25 January 2005 00:51 |
Back on topic. I agree that the media bashes p platers, but it would be expected after the EVL R34 incident and a few other high profile accidents just before christmas. People take what they want from the media, but reporters always need an enemy to make a story.
If anyone's ever paid enough attention to road toll statistics given by the media, the under 25 catagory of casualities and fatalities is compared to all other age groups, but what the media dont mention is that this includes people below the age of 17, people who are passengers.
If you ever get the chance to read the book with the yearly road toll and accident reports, do it. It'll leave you with a chill down your spine and a better understanding of how the media bullshits everbody just for a story.
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Very true, p-plater accidents are nothing compared to the 29-35yr old bracket i think it is, somthing like that n e way..
I was recently away on hoil's and needed reading material so i brought autosalon magazine and they had a big article about the whole P-plater thing with some good points. also a great article/interview with Mr.A (GIS) driver
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