balack people "loot" whereas white people merely "find" :rolleyes:
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Wow, that's blatant! The images and text are almost exactly the same... :rolleyes:
Well noticed
such an observation skill!
I didn't observe it so much as have it shown to me ;)
Let's sue them! I'm sure there's some money to get out of this. :D
Fredi
Welcome to the media bias that's always in the US.
yay.
Do you think the editor actually took the time to think it through..... Lets recount a probable editing situation....
"Editor at his desk -- feet proped up, hole is sole of shoe, he chews on a two day old cigar: There is a knock on the door!"
Editor: Wadda ya want this time! -- [grumbling da%$#@]
[Journalist enters sweating and trembling. He has indigestion from nerves and talks too quietly for the likes of the Editor]
Journalist: S S S S ssss sir... A A A A aahh... W W W W Weee
A A A A Ahhh ave A A A ..
Editor: BLURT IT OUT ALREADY YOU!!! [grumbling da%$#@*&^%$#@ fool]
Journalist: S S S S ssss sir... W W W W Weee ave a a a sit sit situation. We we e ave t t t two p pic pictures a a a of p p p people lo lo looting. An an and wa wa wa one eh eh is a a a ba ba ba black p p person a a an wa wa wa one eh eh eh is a wa wa white p p person....
Editor: YOU LISTEN HERE YOU [grumbling da%$#@*&^%$#@ idiot] THE WHITE PERSON FOUND IT!! YOU HERE ME YOU [grumbling da%$#@*&^%$#@ fool] AND THE BLACK (^%$#&) --- THEY STOLED IT!!!
YOU MAKE SURE YOU PRINT THAT!!!! YOU HERE ME YOU [grumbling da%$#@*&^%$#@ imbecile]
[FADE OUT]
I hardly think this happened -- or anything like it.
Odisey
:yikes:
At least be consistent, J. Jonah Jameson.
That is such a p!ss take! :thumbsdowQuote:
Originally Posted by swampy
Well the black person is from AP and white ones are from AFP.
Just an observation... I assume they provide the caption as well as the photo to Yahoo's site
Quote:
Originally Posted by Odisey
if it was subconscious it would arguably be worse
If my subbing skills are up to the challenge, the caption should read, 'Two residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda in a local grocery store...'Quote:
Two residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store after Hurricane Katrina came through the area in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Note the 'in' a local grocery store.
If you replaced 'finding' with 'looting', 'from' would work correctly, leading me to believe that 'finding' was a direct and blatant replacement for 'looting'.
Sloppy and racist, all at the same time.
Racist php:
PHP Code:if($whites){
$caption = ereg_replace ("loot", "find", $caption);
$caption = ereg_replace ("from", "in", $caption);
}
Nerd.
This was started by a guy on flickr, it's an interesting comparison for sure but the two images are taken by different photographers in different situations for different companies, the copy wasn't written by yahoo, it's written by the agency, in this case two different agencies.
Comparing these two images and crying racism isn't really logical.
I can understand using the comparison to illustrate racism but they certainly don't prove it. If they were both written by the same person then sure, you could say that person is racist.
Either way, it has nothing to do with yahoo, they're just putting them up as they get them from the agencies, they don't write the copy.
meh...
*puts pitch fork down and snubs out flaming torch* Awww... go home chaps, nothing to see here...
im about to go find myself some money at the local bank then.
maybe they should start to read the copy
it's automated.Quote:
Originally Posted by swampy
In order to read all the news copy, they would probably have to incease their staff 10 fold.
The real issue here is that good up standing 'mericans call looting looting. WHile the softy frenches with their hatred of freedom are permissive of crime and simply call it "finding" ;)