Just bog-standard propaganda doing character assassination of a black person and buffing the image of a white conservative one. This image is called “angel vs. no-angel” in my file. This is important to both justify the police murder of Blake and also absolve Rittenhouse of any potential wrongdoing.
A classic case showing the difference in coverage (in the same publication!) of two extremely similar events a few years apart (though as the image notes, the USSR fired on a civilian plane illegally flying in their airspace, while the US fired on one legally flying in another country’s airspace). When the USSR does it, it’s just murder. When the US does it, we have to carefully examine how this accidental tragedy could have occurred.
A particularly egregious one from the AP. Both of these were in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina in 2005. In both cases, they were civilians taking food from flooded grocery stores in order to survive after the government completely botched all levels of both the run-up to the hurricane and the relief efforts. When it’s a Black person, taking food from an abandoned and flooded grocery store is “looting.” When it’s a white person, they just “found” the food.
There were lots of interesting contrasts between the press’ coverage of the Gaza genocide vs. the war in Ukraine. Most mainstream media outlets will subtly (or not-so-subtly) bias readers toward their preferred actor in a conflict by using active, inflammatory language (“murder,” “kill,” etc.) to describe the actions of Palestinians or Russians, but using passive “natural disaster” language to describe the actions of Israelis or Ukrainians (“deaths,” etc.). They will also usually directly name Russia or Palestine as the agent when they conduct strikes, but will avoid doing so with Israel or Ukraine. You can also see this same dynamic already playing out with Iran.
Just bog-standard propaganda doing character assassination of a black person and buffing the image of a white conservative one. This image is called “angel vs. no-angel” in my file. This is important to both justify the police murder of Blake and also absolve Rittenhouse of any potential wrongdoing.
A classic case showing the difference in coverage (in the same publication!) of two extremely similar events a few years apart (though as the image notes, the USSR fired on a civilian plane illegally flying in their airspace, while the US fired on one legally flying in another country’s airspace). When the USSR does it, it’s just murder. When the US does it, we have to carefully examine how this accidental tragedy could have occurred.
A particularly egregious one from the AP. Both of these were in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina in 2005. In both cases, they were civilians taking food from flooded grocery stores in order to survive after the government completely botched all levels of both the run-up to the hurricane and the relief efforts. When it’s a Black person, taking food from an abandoned and flooded grocery store is “looting.” When it’s a white person, they just “found” the food.
There were lots of interesting contrasts between the press’ coverage of the Gaza genocide vs. the war in Ukraine. Most mainstream media outlets will subtly (or not-so-subtly) bias readers toward their preferred actor in a conflict by using active, inflammatory language (“murder,” “kill,” etc.) to describe the actions of Palestinians or Russians, but using passive “natural disaster” language to describe the actions of Israelis or Ukrainians (“deaths,” etc.). They will also usually directly name Russia or Palestine as the agent when they conduct strikes, but will avoid doing so with Israel or Ukraine. You can also see this same dynamic already playing out with Iran.
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