revolutionarykoolaid:unite4humanity:But they keep telling us it’s all in our heads. We are making it
revolutionarykoolaid:unite4humanity:But they keep telling us it’s all in our heads. We are making it up. (Source)Two Media Matters for America studies of crime coverage in 2014uncovered a disturbing pattern—every major network affiliate station in New York is consistently over-representingBlack people as perpetrators of crime. They are unfairly and disproportionately focusing their crime reportingon Black suspects, and inaccurately exaggerating the proportion of Black people involved in crime—on average,exaggerating by 24 percentage points.Read the report (HERE).SIGNAL BOOST -- source link
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