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kpete

(72,028 posts)
Wed Apr 1, 2015, 03:50 PM Apr 2015

1 news organization. 2 crime stories. 2 groups of suspects & 2 very different types of images.

Same day. Same crime. Same news station. One University pics. The other mugshots.

https://twitter.com/honeycoquette/status/582637462503190528

http://www.vox.com/2015/4/1/8326315/media-bias-black-mughsots

Mic's Dennis Clifton reported that when Iowa sister news sites thegazette.com and KCRG.com published stories about two groups of men — one black and one white — arrested for burglary last week, it didn't take long for readers to start asking why the white suspects were pictured in suits and ties, while photos accompanying the story about the black suspects were mug shots.

KCRG said in a statement that the organization's policy was to use the best images available, and the white suspects' mug shots simply weren't available when the story was published, so their wrestling team photos were used instead. But Clifton noted that the story wasn't updated with mug shots (of the three who were formally booked) until after the social media backlash — and a week after the mug shots were made available.

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http://mic.com/articles/114092/these-two-sets-of-crime-photos-represent-a-serious-problem-in-news
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1 news organization. 2 crime stories. 2 groups of suspects & 2 very different types of images. (Original Post) kpete Apr 2015 OP
And this is in one of the more (most?) liberal parts of the state. progressoid Apr 2015 #1

progressoid

(50,000 posts)
1. And this is in one of the more (most?) liberal parts of the state.
Wed Apr 1, 2015, 05:07 PM
Apr 2015

But not necessarily a liberal media.

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