One editor snags a pre-captioned photo off the wire and sticks it up on the site; another snags a different photo off the wire and sticks it up half an hour later. There's no obvious reason for them to be checking all their content against all their other content, and indeed it'd be impossible to do.
Asked to compare only those two pictures, anybody can see that it's a bad idea. But they're not working with only those two; they're working with hundreds of pictures and reports. It's like one of those 'Where's Wally?' puzzles - easy to see once you know where to look.
In reference to the claim that "AFP has another article in which they call black people looters but not white people"? I can't see any white people *in* the sole AFP-credited photo in that post. AFAICT, both services are working on the principle that if their journalists actually see people take stuff from inside stores they can call it 'looting', otherwise they avoid the word; which photos/articles break that rule?
(Last picture on that page is uncredited, but from the filename looks to be AP; note that although it shows a black man jumping out of a broken store window, he's *not* described as a 'looter' - presumably because he's not obviously carrying anything.)
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Date: 2005-09-06 06:56 pm (UTC)Asked to compare only those two pictures, anybody can see that it's a bad idea. But they're not working with only those two; they're working with hundreds of pictures and reports. It's like one of those 'Where's Wally?' puzzles - easy to see once you know where to look.
anyway this was the one i think: http://www.livejournal.com/users/azad_slide/357962.html
In reference to the claim that "AFP has another article in which they call black people looters but not white people"? I can't see any white people *in* the sole AFP-credited photo in that post. AFAICT, both services are working on the principle that if their journalists actually see people take stuff from inside stores they can call it 'looting', otherwise they avoid the word; which photos/articles break that rule?
(Last picture on that page is uncredited, but from the filename looks to be AP; note that although it shows a black man jumping out of a broken store window, he's *not* described as a 'looter' - presumably because he's not obviously carrying anything.)