Speaking of media coverage of the hurricane and race, check out the captions on these photos that were just emailed to me.
Here are the actual links to the pictures:
White People Find, Black People Loot???
Update: Yahoo! has posted this note about these pictures:
To Yahoo! News readers:
News photos are an especially popular section of Yahoo! News. In part, this is because we present thousands of news photos from some of the leading news services, including The Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France Press. To make this volume of photos available in a timely manner, we present the photos and their captions as written, edited and distributed by the news services with no additional editing at Yahoo! News.
In recent days, a number of readers of Yahoo! News have commented on differences in the language in two Hurricane Katrina-related photo captions (from two news services). Since the controversy began, the supplier of one of the photos – AFP – has asked all its clients to remove the photo from their databases. Yahoo! News has complied with the AFP request.
Here are a few of the postings that have commented on the photo caption language:
You can comment on the issue on this message board.
Yahoo! News regrets that these photos and captions, viewed together, may have suggested a racial bias on our part. We remain committed to bringing our readers the full collection of photos as transmitted by our wire service partners.
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That’s pretty sick. Are there any organizations keeping track of this type of media bias and racism? This happens a lot with Israel and there is an organization called HonsetReporting tracking this sort of things and raising awareness, emails editors etc. This picture in the NYTimes is a classic:
http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/reports/The_Photo_that_Started_it_All.asp
Good question. If there isn’t one ther needs to be!
that’s fucked up – beyond belief, actually i can believe it – still fucked up.
btw………
don’t know which blog i like better.
It breaks my heart that the mainstream media barely covers this kind of thing.
Speaking of, did I mention that Kanye West is my new hero?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR2005090300165.html