compare AP photos found on gawker.com

[Mizmoon]

AP caption for the pic on the left:

A young man walks through chest deep flood water after looting a grocery store in New Orleans on Tuesday.

AFP caption for the pic on the right:

Two residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store in New Orleans, Louisiana.

http://www.gawker.com/news/ap/index.php#you-are-a-thief-i-stole-a-loaf-of-bread-123155

[BattyDem]

1. Hmmm .. I wonder why they presented the situations so differently

What could be the difference between those two photos? :sarcasm:

[Neocondriac]

2. right now ....

semantics won't feed or clothe anyone!

[Deep13]

3. uh-huh

Figures.

Isn't the bread they "found" getting a bit soggy?

[beyurslf]

4. Please tell me it is a joke that those are the real captions of those

photos. Please. :)

[Richard Steele]

7. Nope, those are the real captions. Long thread on this already.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4515079&mesg_id=4515079

[SlipperySlope]

5. One is AP, one is AFP, different news services.

Not that it matters much

[1932]

6. Apparently the difference matters.

The Associated Press is sympathetic to capital (and is racist). Agence France Press is sympathetic to people.

[Igel]

10. Oh, it matters much.

They have different styles, different rules on how to present things.

There's the whole 'militant' vs. 'activist' vs. 'terrorist' thing with Reuters, based on exactly the same kinds of decisions. AFP is into 'activist' and 'militant'.

And, after reading the same blips of text over and over in different threads for the last 18 hours, I still find the AFP text to be incongruous.

Is the woman in the AFP pic actually lily white?

[Geoff R. Casavant]

8. Well, just a moment

I agree it sure looks bad, but don't forget these photos represent one split second, and I doubt the photographer was just pointing at random. The photogs in question may have watched these folks for several minutes before taking the photos above, and may have seen the black man actually loot, and the white couple actually find the bread floating out of a broken window.

Since we don't know what went on with these particular folks in the moments before the pix were snapped, we really can't rush to judgment on the captions chosen.

[1932]

9. To eat, you have to "loot".

The stores aren't open. The cash machines are under water, as are people's kitchens.