When the media treats White Suspects and Killers better than Black Victims

[oarabbus]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/14/media-black-victims_n_5673291.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000010

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On the afternoon of Aug. 9, a police officer fatally shot an unarmed, black teenager, Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri. Details remain in dispute. Eyewitnesses have said that Brown was compliant with police and was shot while he had his hands up. Police maintain that the 18-year-old had assaulted an officer and was reaching for the officer's gun. One thing clear, however, is that Brown's death follows a disturbingly common trend of black men being killed, often while unarmed and at the hands of police officers, security guards and vigilantes.

After news of Brown's death broke, media-watchers carefully followed the narratives that news outlets began crafting about the teenager and the incident that claimed his life. Wary of the controversy surrounding the media's depiction of Trayvon Martin -- the Florida teen killed in a high-profile case that led to the acquittal of neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman -- people on Twitter wondered, "If they gunned me down, which picture would they use?" Using the hashtag #IfTheyGunnedMeDown, users posted side-by-side photos, demonstrating the power that news outlets wield in portraying victims based on images they select.

On Monday, Twitter user LordSWVP tweeted out a photo driving home another point: Media treatment of black victims is often harsher than it is of whites suspected of crimes, including murder.

This makes the hashtag #IfTheyGunnedMeDown so powerful. It's sad that some people have taken it to another level. pic.twitter.com/oZnLDRRDhN

[Godzuki]

thats the far left liberal media for u, exaggerating sympathy for what is a part of culture of white and black people generally....or realistic truth behind the characters of people.

nerds vs guys into hip hop

but thats turned into media portrayal of bias for white guy vs trying to depict black guy as thug.


why can't a former college professor be described as brilliant?, which probably comes from her colleagues?

VS

picking and choosing a black guy article who is described with a history of narcotics abuse? does everyone deserve a brilliant portrayal? was he a former college professor?

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Eric Belluci went to Williams College in Massachusetts. Williams College currently occupies 1st place in U.S. News & World Report's 2014 ranking of the 266 liberal arts colleges in the United States

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Treyvon Martin who was initially painted as a saint by media and family/friends. why can't they report he was suspended 3 times from school to counter that exaggerated image? Why is reporting truth so wrong to you if there is no agenda to be pro black? I bet there were article titles painting him as a great student and guy initially....until further evidence came out. Just like with Mike Brown.

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I'm not going to counter all of it since its not worth the effort, but in summary its just all picking and choosing story headlines for a agenda to make a story. Again far left liberal media....they ALWAYS do this. Maybe there are more bad things black people who are in these incidents are into than the white people who have less a criminal record? or those white people ARE smarter or do better in school? maybe those black guys they picked and chose WERE drug addicts, had former suspensions, etc?

Picking and choosing to make a story and paint an agenda is easy when you have every news article ever made at your disposal :rolleyes:

If i cared enough i KNOW i could run this article in reverse which shouldn't be that hard finding white people with negative headline descriptions and some black people with positive headline descpritions if i have every newspaper headline ever created to pick and choose from.

[gts]

The media paints the picture they want their audience to see... I've looked but
CNN still has yet to mention that video released yesterday where we overhear a bystander saying Brown was running towards the cop when he was shot

For days CNN concentrated on Brown being shot in the back... Autopsy says all the shots were to the front of his body and they jump on the 6 shots but glaze over that 4 of them were to his arm and focus on the head wounds... after listening to the origina report you'd think all 6 shots were to the head

[DwnShft2Xcelr8]

Well, the truth is the media wants viewer-ship.
Trayvon was depicted as an angel UNTIL eyewitness statements declared he was the one attacking Zimmerman.
Mike Brown was depicted as a soon-to-be college student with a bright future ahead of him until the surveillance footage showed he was a thug.
Then you look at white murder suspects, right? That psycho who shot up the Aurora, CO, theater during The Dark Knight Rises opening weekend was immediately depicted as a loner with mental issues. Maybe I'm missing something but there weren't talks of him being an upstanding individual.
The murderers who are shown as angels are usually the ones who surprise everyone with their actions. You look at the Colombine shooters and see that they were typical geeky f**gots. They didn't have any footage showing them robbing an old man and strong arming him when confronted.

The media is fukked up, yes. They show you what will get more views over the actual facts, but let's not act like they give white murder suspects preferential treatment. Maybe Fox News does but that's why you don't get your news from a piece of shit source.

[russwest0]

:facepalm at people who don't understand why they do this.

A skinny pale white guy doesn't look cool or badass by any stretch of the imagination. So they always have to paint these guys as the "evil geniuses" to keep the interest in these stories high, which I'm sure as you all know, affects viewership and ratings.

If there was a ghetto, tatted up white kid who did some ghetto shit and they found a picture of him throwing up gang sings, guess which picture they would use?

Race doesn't matter in this circumstance. It's all about public perception.

[MavsSuperFan]

That is messed up. I think it does show a racial bias.

Still what is the fascination with media portrayals?

Do people realize that getting convicted in the media doesnt lead to conviction in court?

Eg. the media condemned and still do today zimmerman. he is completely free.

In court once it goes to trial the full evidence will come out.

Also on a tangential point. it is appropriate to look in to the character of the accuser/ supposed victim. Before the accusation is proven, one must ascertain the credibility of the accuser.

In cases where the supposed victim was killed and the accused killer chooses to use self defense as his defense, the courts need to determine how likely the supposed victim would have used violence. Is it consistent with past behaviours? Is it totally contrary to how the supposed victim acted?

In rape cases, where the accused rapist choses to argue it was consensual sex. the court must look into whether or not the supposed victim regularly engaged in casual sex.

Eg. Kate faber accused Kobe of raping her. Kobe argued that it was consensual sex. eventually we found out faber was the type of person that enjoyed casual sex (not judging, personally I would much rather be around promiscuous women than boring prudes, but it is relevant).

In fact the rape kit used on faber showed the semen of kobe, and another man. giving faber the benefit of the doubt and assuming that she had sex with another guy before kobe and her had sex, it would still show that she was open to having sex with men she just met. the alternative is she had sex with another dude after kobe

I have always been of the opinion that kobe and faber had consensual sex, and faber decided to claim rape in order to eventually file a civil suit. Eventually she did so and kobe paid her a settlement. To me faber extorted money from kobe.

Looking into the character of the supposed victim is important.

[Godzuki]

That is messed up. I think it does show a racial bias.

Still what is the fascination with media portrayals?

Do people realize that getting convicted in the media doesnt lead to conviction in court?

Eg. the media condemned and still do today zimmerman. he is completely free.

In court once it goes to trial the full evidence will come out.

Also on a tangential point. it is appropriate to look in to the character of the accuser/ supposed victim. Before the accusation is proven, one must ascertain the credibility of the accuser.

In cases where the supposed victim was killed and the accused killer chooses to use self defense as his defense, the courts need to determine how likely the supposed victim would have used violence. Is it consistent with past behaviours? Is it totally contrary to how the supposed victim acted?

In rape cases, where the accused rapist choses to argue it was consensual sex. the court must look into whether or not the supposed victim regularly engaged in casual sex.

Eg. Kate faber accused Kobe of raping her. Kobe argued that it was consensual sex. eventually we found out faber was the type of person that enjoyed casual sex (not judging, personally I would much rather be around promiscuous women than boring prudes, but it is relevant).

In fact the rape kit used on faber showed the semen of kobe, and another man. giving faber the benefit of the doubt and assuming that she had sex with another guy before kobe and her had sex, it would still show that she was open to having sex with men she just met. the alternative is she had sex with another dude after kobe

I have always been of the opinion that kobe and faber had consensual sex, and faber decided to claim rape in order to eventually file a civil suit. Eventually she did so and kobe paid her a settlement. To me faber extorted money from kobe.

Looking into the character of the supposed victim is important.


the problem is the aftermath. the more media portrays things against the officer, the more outraged the public gets, or sympathetic to black people being wronged, or the cops as getting preferential treatment. the court of public opinion matters in today's media age. its created the us vs them mentality of black people against police, its perpetuated and exaggerated it. granted there have been legitimate incidents to support that notion but there have been many with one sided portrayals that continue to further the perception of injustice.

now is sort of a breaking point, or even the next one will be a breaking point even more where social media creates a bigger frenzy. race relations vs the police is at a all time high but its to the point that police are seen as guilty either way, even if they aren't in courts. If the police officer legitimately wins in court of trial, he will not win in the court of public opinion with black people in the country....even many other colors of people will side against the police. They will riot, use this as more injustice, and hell could break lose...if not the next time.

cops are pretty screwed in general since the public in general tends to hate them. there is nobody sticking up for them but themselves. Even our government has taken the side of public perception, the POTUS has, the governors bowing to their constituents, etc. so its really a media war on police who really have no way out from it but continue to be vilified. Whether the officer was in the right or not.....he'll probably spend the rest of his life being vilified, and in threat of danger since his name was released. I doubt he can carry on with his job but who knows. Zimmerman probably has a difficult time being in public i'd think.

[Akrazotile]

Is OP tardified?

The first thing we heard about this Mike Brown guy is he was a teddy bear and he was about to start college next week. Thats how they presented him immediately after the story broke. The fact he was about to start college was mentioned in every article like five times.

Once video was released of him roughing up a clerk in the commission of a robbery, presentation of his character was forced to be tweaked, jusssst a lil. To coincide with, you know, who he ACTUALLY was. Damn, dat racist media. :facepalm

[RidonKs]

when people treat media treatment of white murderers and black victims as if it actually matters
fixed it for you

[KNOW1EDGE]

Someone could make a video of the exact opposite.

Except white people don't dig for racism in every aspect of every second of every day

[andgar923]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/14/media-black-victims_n_5673291.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000010




see the examples at the link provided at the top. Whole thing is a clusterfcuk of :wtf: and :facepalm:

No surprises here.

I thought this was common knowledge.:confusedshrug:

I've seen and experienced white society's double standards all my life.