links vom 14.02.2015
popularmechanics.com: How The New York Times Works #
reeves wiedeman über die herstellung und transformation der new york times. lang und lesenswert wie die sonntagsausgabe der new york times.
atlantablackstar.com: NY Times White-Washed Coverage of Lynching Report Demonstrates How Uncomfortable Mainstream Media Is In Confronting History of W #
nick chiles kritisiert einen artikel von campell robertson in der nytimes über eine studie über die rassistisch motivierte lynchjustiz in den USA (pdf-link):
Not once did Robertson bother to tell the reader that the “group of men," that the “mob," that the “soda-drinking spectators" were white. It's almost as if the always cautious Times was not completely sure of who committed the lynchings and was waiting for officials to come along from 1910 and 1922 and confirm their racial identity.
In addition, though the incredibly detailed report by the Montgomery, Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative used the words “white terrorism" over and over to describe the effect of the lynchings on America and the Black community, the Times went out of its way to avoid that language, instead calling them “racial terror lynchings."
mit diesem absatz fängt die studie des EJI an:
he United States. Lynchings were violent and public acts of torture that traumatized black people throughout the country and were largely tolerated by state and federal officials. These lynchings were terrorism. “Terror lynchings" peaked between 1880 and 1940 and claimed the lives of African American men, women, and children who were forced to endure the fear, humiliation, and barbarity of this widespread phenomenon unaided.
kann man runterladen und lesen.