{"id":41023,"date":"2011-10-27T12:46:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T17:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=41023"},"modified":"2011-11-09T14:15:21","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T19:15:21","slug":"skewing-the-news-words-vs-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/10\/27\/skewing-the-news-words-vs-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Skewing the News: Words vs. Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Cross-posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/montclairsoci.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/words-and-pictures.html\" target=\"_blank\">Montclair SocioBlog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Newspapers report facts \u2013 thing that actually happened.\u00a0 They run photos of things that actually happened.\u00a0 They don\u2019t make stuff up.\u00a0 But they do choose which facts to report, and they do choose which photos to run.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Usually the two are congruent.<\/p>\n<p>But not always.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/455265\/washington-post-illustrates-oakland-police-brutality-with-cop-petting-kitten\">Wonkette<\/a> ran this photo of a page from the Washington Post:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ICaWnh4Tp90\/TqlIgvAIApI\/AAAAAAAACzk\/Qyop2uy7F3s\/s1600\/00+Cop+Kitty+a.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ICaWnh4Tp90\/TqlIgvAIApI\/AAAAAAAACzk\/Qyop2uy7F3s\/s640\/00+Cop+Kitty+a.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"512\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-54r7-Nzvqwc\/TqlHsfzWAXI\/AAAAAAAACzc\/ewaWxJOPYwI\/s1600\/00+Cop+Kitty.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Wonkette and other sites have contrasted the photo with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=OZLyUK0t0vQ#%21\"> this video<\/a> of a cop deliberately firing a tear gas canister at close range directly at a group of demonstrators who had come to aid of someone who had been hit in the head with a tear gas canister.<\/p>\n<p>But what\u2019s also noteworthy is the contrast between the photo (nice cop, nice kitty, nothing violent happening here) and the Post\u2019s own lede:\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cPolice fired tear gas and beanbags. . . .\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted at Montclair SocioBlog. Newspapers report facts \u2013 thing that actually happened.\u00a0 They run photos of things that actually happened.\u00a0 They don\u2019t make stuff up.\u00a0 But they do choose which facts to report, and they do choose which photos to run.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Usually the two are congruent. But not always.\u00a0\u00a0Wonkette ran this photo of a page [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12508,129],"class_list":["post-41023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activismsocial-movements","tag-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41023"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41729,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41023\/revisions\/41729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}