If They Gunned Me Down - Which Picture of You Would the Media Choose to Run?

[cui bono]

Twitter Users Criticize Media Portrayals of Minority Deaths

This is a powerful campaign to show how the media picks certain pics to depict people in the media, purposely showing minorities in less professional or scholarly light. So people are posting two pics of themselves that show different sides and asking which pic would the media choose if they made the news.

#IfTheyGunnedMeDown












http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/08/13/iftheygunnedmedown-twitter-users-criticize-media-portrayals-minority-deaths

http://mashable.com/2014/08/12/iftheygunnedmedown-hashtag/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link4

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/13/us/if-they-gunned-me-down-protest-on-twitter.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

[Rex]

1. The media takes no responsiblility for showing flamebait on the TVEE. Or it did.

Maybe REPORTERS getting arrested and banged up a bit, opened up a lot of eyes and ears. In America. A police force tried to blackout their area and got snotty when the media showed up. The media better wake the fuck up. The M$M just had some of their own denied their rights...

Look what's going down...

[cui bono]

2. I was looking for the pic the media ran with for Trayvon Martin because I thought

I remembered something about them running a sketchy pic but boy, I turned up a whole right wing smear campaign where they kept posting pics of people that weren't Trayvon in an effort to dig up one that made him look less like an innocent victim.

Yuck.

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5. Yes, remember the rapper?

The fact they had to resort to false photos meant they couldn't find one they thought would make him look bad.

And they whined about using the one where he was a little younger - because that did not supposedly support their prejudices.

Right wingers are all about show. Cops or Zimmermans don't get to gun people down because of the way they look.

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3. kick

[Fla Dem]

4. Very Powerful, and so true. nt

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6. The military uniform

That really kills it. Right wingers would be so mad about that.