Why Portraying a Black Victim as The Suspect is Media Malpractice
This case of mistaken identity has racial connotations
“To err is human,” the English poet Alexander Pope suggested in his 1711 Essay on Criticism. And yet, some errors are more egregious than others. For instance, after a shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia, WSB-TV, an Atlanta station, made a faux pas that reignited the national conversati…
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