The articles in question
WaPo
NPR
HuffPost
This is unbelievable.
For the "just asking questions trolls":
Economic Antisemitism:
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Washington Post Retracts Bernie Sanders Image After Charges of Anti-Semitism
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The articles in question
WaPo
NPR
HuffPost
This is unbelievable.
For the "just asking questions trolls":
Economic Antisemitism:
WaPo is a center-right publication, so it's no surprise that they don't choose pictures that make Sanders look flattering. But this is just ridiculous.
Anti-semitic imagery doesn't need you to consciously pick it up, it works subconsciously. That hand rubbing picture, and generally dark mood of the picture is no accident.
Not really, yes there is a clear similarity in the pose but we don't know why or how that picture was landed on. Also is there a history of this publication posting anti Semitic pictures of him? He's been in politics for awhile now.
Please do not goysplain to me a rag like WaPo using antiSemitic imagery.
It's in the OP. It's at least the second time they've used that kind of pose for him.
Not my intent. I was attempting to explain what my original post meant. At any rate, it clearly upset people so it being pulled was the right choice.
"but this isn't an image that depict him as rich"
2nd image on Google.
Rolling Stone used a similar image
Guess youre going to have to get the rolling stone too.
I really doubt the average person makes these connections
so the average person just subconsciously absorbs anti Semitic imagery instead of doing it consciously, very cool
That photo was from the AP/Shutterstock.
I hope they're going after them too/the photographer for advancing this type of anti-Semitism.
I hope they're going after them too/the photographer for advancing this type of anti-Semitism.
This was definitely a fuckup and WaPo needs to look into who made the call on the image and why.
Including Walter "voted for Trump" Bragman in the list of outraged "lefties" is also a choice from the OP.
Including Walter "voted for Trump" Bragman in the list of outraged "lefties" is also a choice from the OP.
Alone the image is fine. It's the specific context alongside the article.
Which is all the more reason to draw attention to it.
Guess youre going to have to get the rolling stone too.
I really doubt the average person makes these connections
WaPo using a similar image for an article about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her jewish heritage
Yeah, they are wrong too.
Guess youre going to have to get the rolling stone too.
I really doubt the average person makes these connections
Then it should be simple to offer an explanation about why bad pictures seem to be picked just for Bernie.
They also dropped this hot sack of shit last year:
well they're certainly right that democracy dies in darkness as long as this POS rag of Bezos runs
They also dropped this hot sack of shit last year:
For fuck's sake.
For anyone curious about this, generally there are guidelines that a newspaper or other news organization about what pictures are and are not acceptable to use as B roll for persons in articles, if there's a deviation from presenting the person in a generally pleasant light it should reflect the tenor of the story. In both these cases it doesn't and is therefore incompetent at best.
I am Jewish and I'm already seeing goyim (non-Jews) on page 1 downplaying this.
No one knows, but any large news outlet should have enough foresight to not be tripping over their dick accidentally posting imagery that plays into cartoonishly racist caricatures.
Agreed. Could be easy to blame on an intern, but more than likely they only have a few specific editors on staff that handle certain categories (Politics, Sports, etc).
Some digging around Linkedin could turn up something.
But the two are pretty different. Honestly the photo personally wouldn't have made me blink, so having it pointed out and then removing it promptly wouldn't make me feel like there's necessarily any malice there.
No excuse if it was anti-semetism of course but removing it after it being pointed out seems kind of ok to me. I think you could honestly poll people and you'd find few who would make the connection. That's not to say it's not an issue but just to say removing it after it's mentioned suggests this might be what happened and the response was reasonable.
Someone in editing. Writers don't generally make the final call on headlines and photo layouts.
Good example of implicit racism.
The Bezos comments in this thread are so stupid. Like, that comment is legitimately a line Trump uses every day, but as soon as the WaPo publishes something that isn't glowing about Sanders it's "BEzos at it again!" It's wrong when Trump says it every day, and it's just as wrong as when you say it.
The Bezos comments in this thread are so stupid. Like, that comment is legitimately a line Trump uses every day, but as soon as the WaPo publishes something that isn't glowing about Sanders it's "BEzos at it again!" It's wrong when Trump says it every day, and it's just as wrong as when you say it.
