The Looting Selfie and Portraits of Media Bias in Baltimore — BagNews

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The Looting Selfie and Portraits of Media Bias in Baltimore – Reading The Pictures

What was particular to the photo coverage of protest violence this week was the portraiture. I don’t recall citizens so willing to share their venom with news photographers in an actual pose.

via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2015/04/the-looting-selfie-portraits-of-media-bias-in-baltimore/

It’s this degree of anger that translates into a singular derision I don’t remember seeing before in the coverage of the last few incidents — of black and brown citizens willing to pose for news photographers in deep enmity. The photo leading this post, for example, was a first for me in what’s become the most popular popular genre of both news and personal photography, the “looting selfie.”