Brainwashed by the Media when it comes to NYC carriage horses?

An article by Elizabeth Forel, regarding the media's railroading of the carriage horse ban.

"This is about power and influence – not about horses, drivers, animal activists or real estate tycoons." 

I just finished reading this excellent article, about the media's bias. It seems that the NYC papers are not telling the truth about carriage horses and drivers. 

I'm not surprised by this. It's the same thing the media does when the subject of unpasteurized ("raw"?) milk comes up.

The local media in NYC is trying to portray the drivers and the carriages as a picturesque, heartwarming "return to the days of yesteryear."

No wonder, since that is the exact stereotype people are thinking of when they ride on a horse-driven carriage through Central Park.

The media bias regarding horse-drawn carriages, though, exploits this alleged "return to the past" as romantic and desirable. 

But, when it comes to the subject of unpasteurized milk, the media bias portray the alleged "return to the past" as dirty, diseased, unhygienic, pre-Enlightenment primitivism --- somehow related to the Black Death, or Bubonic Plague.

(The irony, of course, is that the two "pasts" are the exact same time: ---  Nineteenth to early Twentieth Centuries.)

Please look at the photos in this article ---- if your heart can take it --- and see for yourself how heartwarming and picturesque the carriage trade is in New York City.

There is a link to this article, also, in the Forel article. This author, Vickery Eckhoff, has a blog. She has been studying horse slaughter in the U.S., and is against it. Thanks Heavens!