An example of media racial bias

[TonyB06]

Originally posted by annice22
Sorry for hijacking your thread but after reading the postings I decided to e-mail the AP to ask them about the racial bias with the pictures and articles. I'm sure I probably will not receive an e-mail back but at least I let them know about there media difference.

Maybe they will remove it if enough people write in to complain. The e-mail address is feedback@ap.org

no need to apologize. as long as you come in peace, you're welcome here.

*now relinquishing my right to speak for the Deltas and apologizing in advance before CT4 comes at me with the angry face again * lol

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by TonyB06
no need to apologize. as long as you come in peace, you're welcome here.

*now relinquishing my right to speak for the Deltas and apologizing in advance before CT4 comes at me with the angry face again * lol

Tony, your words were right on the money,

Annice, welcome.

[mccoyred]

Originally posted by annice22
Sorry for hijacking your thread but after reading the postings I decided to e-mail the AP to ask them about the racial bias with the pictures and articles. I'm sure I probably will not receive an e-mail back but at least I let them know about there media difference.

Maybe they will remove it if enough people write in to complain. The e-mail address is feedback@ap.org

Thanks. You saved me a search. I am so angry, I could spit!

[Krisco]

I have been so angry, so sad, so worried. NO is my second home. I got a very few of Mr. Krisco's people that were ABLE to leave, here with us as I type.

Martial law and a serious, federal gov't MANDATORY complete evacuation should have been declared and ordered when they KNEW a cat 5 storm was coming to the city damn near two weeks ago. The had already predicted the worse years before this even happened! The what if's in this situtation should have been the medium for a contingency plan that should have been able to have been executed. This is just wrong, I am mad, and I must pray. Sorry ladies and gents...its just too much. It doesn't matter if you know someone from NO, and surrounding areas or not this affects you. Even in a catastrophic disaster, our people cannot erase amerikkka's ingrained image of us being savages. God help us...its nearing the end.

[DirectorDST1999]

Steeltrap, I'm a journalist (former) too and this type of reporting makes me want to report again. But, I'm certainly not surprised because we know these disparities have existed forever in the media and the only way we can change it is to have our on media outlets.

When I saw those pictures and captions I was out done but not surprised.

[ladygreek]

Originally posted by DirectorDST1999
Steeltrap, I'm a journalist (former) too and this type of reporting makes me want to report again. But, I'm certainly not surprised because we know these disparities have existed forever in the media and the only way we can change it is to have our on media outlets.

When I saw those pictures and captions I was out done but not surprised.

Look who has come out of the woodwork. YAY! Welcome back, and hope you stay around.

[Steeltrap]

Originally posted by DirectorDST1999
Steeltrap, I'm a journalist (former) too and this type of reporting makes me want to report again. But, I'm certainly not surprised because we know these disparities have existed forever in the media and the only way we can change it is to have our on media outlets.

When I saw those pictures and captions I was out done but not surprised.

Director, you've hit the nail on the head. This is why the black press is so vital, blessed, and needs to survive. Additionally, why don't we have our own NEWS network? If I was an investor and not a middle-class wage pusher, that's what I'd do.

[Sistermadly]

Before BET was Viacom-ed, wasn't there some talk there about starting an all news network?

[Steeltrap]

Originally posted by Sistermadly
Before BET was Viacom-ed, wasn't there some talk there about starting an all news network?

I think there might have been, but my mind isn't working right these days.

[Neosoulchild]

[Visionary22]

Quote "when the man from FEMA tried to say "well we can't be responsible when people don't follow evacuation orders" Koppell shot back HOW are people without cars or money to rent hotel rooms suppossed to leave if the GUARD wasn't available to provide buses,trains,boats, flat bed trucks for them to leave on??"

The director of FEMA is clearly out of touch and is a total idiot for making that comment. NOT EVRYONE HAS THE MEANS TO EVACUATE. You mean to tell me someone who has supposedly been in charge of other diasters doesn't know that! I am so tired of the lack of empathy of these so called leaders and their total incompetence.

[Tickled Pink 2]

Check this out:

http://news.yahoo.com/page/photostatement

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:

Flickr

Salon

Romenesko

Gothamist

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.

Neil Budde
General Manager
Yahoo! News

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From my understanding, they removed the people that "found" food.

[Lady of Pearl]

I too do not like the language attributed to those African Americans in the hurricane situation if they were so called looters they were doing what they had to do in order to stay alive mostly eat, and how can one be a refugee in one's own country, several people have spoken on tv and stated that they were survivors not refugees! Once again we can supposedly protect human rights around the world but what about in our own backyard!