Did the media frame the George Floyd protest coverage for white eyes?
Jun 22, 2021
Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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In a Mother Jones piece, Ramenda Cyrus analyzes A1 coverage of last year’s George Floyd protests and contends that the media is still relying on old tropes to represent Black Americans. In this episode of Vision Slightly Blurred, Allen and Sarah take a look at her arguments and the supporting voices of author Martin Berger and “Reading the Pictures” publisher Michael Shaw.
Also in the show: The 400 Years Project collects stories of Native Americans, facial recognition errors are preventing people from collecting unemployment, Darnella Frazier receives a special citation from the Pulitzer Prizes for her video of George Floyd being murdered, Emily Ratajkowski sells her NFT for $175,000, and books from Ben Brody, Sebastiao Salgado, and Todd Bigelow.
We mention the following photographers, articles, and websites in this episode:
- Happy National Selfie Day! Paris Hilton claims to have invented the selfie.
- The 400 Years Project Looks At Native American Identity Through The Native Lens (via NPR)
- Indigenous Photograph
- Facial recognition software used to verify unemployment recipients reportedly doesn’t work well (via The Verge)
- How the George Floyd Uprising Was Framed for White Eyes (via Mother Jones)
- Reuters photojournalist of the year: Carlos Barria
- Darnella Frazier, the teen who filmed George Floyd’s murder, awarded a Pulitzer citation (via WashPo)
- Darnella Frazier, the teenager who filmed George Floyd’s arrest, testifies at the trial. (via NYT)
- Emily Ratajkowski Sold Her NFT Artwork for $175,000 After Her ‘Copyright Nightmare’ With a Contentious New York Artist (via Cheat Sheet)
- How many layers of copyright infringement are in Emily Ratajkowski’s new NFT? (via The Verge)
- “Relentless Absurdity”: An Army Photographer’s Censored Images (via New Yorker)
- Ben Brody’s Attention Servicemember
- ‘Paradise exists!’: Sebastião Salgado’s stunning voyage into Amazônia (via The Guardian)
- Sebastião Salgado’s Amazônia
- Todd Bigelow’s The Freelance Photographer’s Guide To Success: Business Essentials
About the Author
Allen Murabayashi is a graduate of Yale University, the Chairman and co-founder of PhotoShelter blog, and a co-host of the “Vision Slightly Blurred” podcast on iTunes. For more of his work, check out his website and follow him on Twitter. The opinions expressed in this article and podcast are solely those of the authors. This article was also published here and shared with permission.
Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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8 responses to “Did the media frame the George Floyd protest coverage for white eyes?”
2 billion dollars in property damage, and money donated to blm that went directly to Joe Biden and 4 houses to the blm co-founder – yeah, I’d say it was a pretty corrupt movement preying on our sense of empathy.
Media will do anything if it needs to fits their Narrative – this goes for any story
Per the Mueller report Putin got a lot for his money, you know how much enough bombs to level billions in property would have cost
Did the media frame the George Floyd protest coverage for white eyes?
Race and Hispanic Origin
White alone, percent 76.3%
Black or African American alone, percent(a) 13.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native alone, percent(a) 1.3%
Asian alone, percent(a) 5.9%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, percent(a) 0.2%
Two or More Races, percent 2.8%
[https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219]
Which set of white eyes? I hate this belief that everyone of a certain race has the same beliefs. It does not apply to any race. It is just another form of soft racism.
Manipulation via emotions
Oye Vey, it’s the medias fault, it’s the Republican’s fault, it’s the Democrat’s fault, the police, BLM, white people, etc., etc…
There is such a push to put everything into groups as we have lost our ability to have self responsibility and individual exclusion. We have bad apples on the tree of life. Derek Chauvin killed Mr. Floyd. Until we as a species can remove hate from our lives we will continue to have more Floyds, more gang shooting , mall shootings, killings of all types. To blame it on a any “group” is just avoiding the real issue of what is at fault. Now go take some photos of cute animals and landscapes.