Closing her feature, and the newscast, substitute co-anchor Diane
Sawyer concluded that laws there for the common good like speed
limits need a little wiggle room just to get through.
That perspective was missing from reporter
Miguel Marquezs traffic camera story a week earlier on the February
22 World
News Tonight.
The Business & Media Institute documented how Marquez ignored libertarian
and conservative critiques of how governments use speed cameras as
revenue enhancers under the guise of law enforcement and safety.
Marquez also concluded his segment with a hint of approval of speed
camera proliferation, remarking that If traffic accidents are down,
it could be coming to a freeway near you.
But at one point during Sawyers report, however, the ABC anchor
aired footage of how everyone strictly obeying the speed limit could
cause traffic accidents.
The Reason.com Web log post that links to the GSU speeding
documentary can be found
here.