This Video Calls For Fair Treatment In How Media Covers Black Protests Vs. White Riots
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/06/white-riots-black-protest_n_7672334.html
The video, produced by Brave New Films, also includes soundbites from news outlets referring to black protesters as “criminals," and “thugs." In contrast, other clips show the media describing riots mainly composed of white Americans with words like “passionate” and “rowdy.”
“Some, maybe, got a little out of control,” a news anchor reported as a college-aged white man swung a burning t-shirt in the air during a riot after University of Kentucky lost a NCAA Final Four basketball game to University of Wisconsin earlier this year.
"'White Riots vs.Black Protests' was originally inspired by the difference in the way the media portrayed the Ferguson protests vs. (mostly) white sports fan riots," Mike Damanskis, Director of Digital at Brave New Films told The Huffington Post in an email. "After the Waco shooting that left nine people dead, the media bias was even more apparent."
The compilation calls for fair treatment from the media and how it discusses and debates these protests, regardless of the majority race of protesters. It also notes differences in police treatment and terminology used when talking about black protesters.
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