TOON: Media & Racial Bias

[napkinz]

[napkinz]

1. must-read thread ...

When The Media Treats White Suspects And Killers Better Than Black Victims

posted by Cali_Democrat: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025405745

[LloydS of New London]

2. K&Rx100

[Cha]

3. Fucking racist corporatemedia! too bad for them we have

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Steve Kaschinske @Kaschman14
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Anchor on @CNN wondering aloud why police aren't using water cannons in #Ferguson. Co-anchor not impressed
7:16 PM - 18 Aug 2014 4,725 Retweets 2,589 favorites

http://theobamadiary.com/2014/08/19/i-love-this-country-i-wish-that-my-country-loved-me/

mahalo napkinz

[napkinz]

9. water cannons, really? why not just go all out, right!

Unbelievable!

[napkinz]

10. back to the '60s

Last edited Wed Aug 20, 2014, 02:17 PM - Edit history (2)

[Jamaal510]

4. K&R

[Fawke Em]

5. Oh, hell. That's nothing. When it's MUSLIMS then everything goes.

[Uncle Joe]

6. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, napkinz.

[Gothmog]

7. Great cartoon

[malaise]

8. K & R for truth

They are racist to the core

[napkinz]

11. kick

nt

[napkinz]

12. Michael Brown was “no angel,” according to outrageously skewed New York Times report

posted by DUer XemaSab

see http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025442324


On Sunday, the New York Times published what was a generally poignant piece about Michael Brown, the teenager who was gunned down by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. Reporter John Eligon wrote eloquently of Brown’s introspective final weeks struggling with religion and the meaning of life. However, the generally respectful article has unwittingly demonstrated the media’s unconscious bias.

Eligon wrote:

Michael Brown, 18, due to be buried on Monday, was no angel, with public records and interviews with friends and family revealing both problems and promise in his young life. Shortly before his encounter with Officer Wilson, the police say he was caught on a security camera stealing a box of cigars, pushing the clerk of a convenience store into a display case. He lived in a community that had rough patches, and he dabbled in drugs and alcohol. He had taken to rapping in recent months, producing lyrics that were by turns contemplative and vulgar. He got into at least one scuffle with a neighbor.

In an article that purports to be about the spiritual curiosity of a doomed teen, why is it necessary to hedge the writer’s argument with harmless details of his allegedly fraught youth? Because certain media outlets have aggressively spread certain details of Brown’s life, it seems that every news outlet needs to include details of Brown’s drug use and petty theft (which are normal teenage offenses) in order to remain “objective.” In reality, the inclusion of these details represents the public will to say that maybe, just maybe, Brown’s fate was unavoidable. Expectedly, people have taken to Twitter to express their outrage at the piece, zeroing in on the phrase “was no angel.”

http://www.salon.com/2014/08/25/new_york_times_piece_about_michael_browns_final_days_unwittingly_demonstrates_unconscious_bias/