Joined: Wed Nov 03, 2004 11:23 pm Posts: 6165 Location: Mass
I got the link to this from Talking Points Memo. The following excerpt is from the New York Times:
New York Times wrote:
A routine traffic stop of a 75-year-old Hasidic driver in Brooklyn escalated into a protest last night by hundreds of Orthodox Jews, who surrounded a police station house, chanted "No justice no peace," lighted bonfires and set a police car afire. The driver and two other men were arrested, but no serious injuries were reported
Now, is it just me or does that sound retarded? Lighting a car on fire is "Escalated into a protest"? If it had been muslim extremists protesting racial profiling, might the NYT have called it a "riot"?
This is similar to after Hurricane Katrina, when the news reported blacks to be "looting" supermarkets while whites were "forced to search for food".
How prevalent are instances like this? Is there a racial/ethnic prejudice in terms of word-choice within the media?
every news story has a slant because every news story has a writer with a bias. this is not a bad thing per se...it is reality. what is going on in my head directly affects what i am writing, no matter how hard i try to be unbiased.
it is up to us to read critically, understand that every writer has an inate bias, and to try to filter through it all to find the truth.
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Joined: Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:02 am Posts: 44183 Location: New York Gender: Male
hear my name wrote:
surrounding a police station chanting "no justice, no peace" = a protest.
By the way, the whole "looting" vs. "looking for food" thing was more or less debunked.
really, where?
_________________ "Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference."--FDR
Read the quotes from the actual photographers. It wasn't "the media" reporting everything with black people one way and everything with white people another way. It was two photos taken by two different people who wrote two different captions.
Joined: Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:02 am Posts: 44183 Location: New York Gender: Male
thanks
_________________ "Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference."--FDR
Joined: Wed Nov 03, 2004 11:23 pm Posts: 6165 Location: Mass
I realize there is always going to be a bias in any story, but saying "escalating into a protest" just sounds stupid. No one would write that and not realize it sounds strange. If it "escalated" into a protest, what did it begin as?
"Escalated into a riot" is a much more common and reasonable phrase.
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