Friday, February 6, 2009

A picture says a thousand words

Looking through the paper this morning and I noticed a trend that seems to be long running. Just curious, but do you think posting a picture in the paper of a suspect of a bank robbery, who is still out there, is more important than posting a picture of a suspect of a person who is in custody for a robbery? Ok, I agree, both are crimes to be reported, but what makes one priority over the other? I find it ironic, no, surprising, no typical, that the picture of a black male being put into the back of a police car warrants a large picture on page two, but a suspect in a bank robbery, who is white, in a predominately white community (Cole Harbour), and still on the loose, gets his tiny picture on page seven in the small Across Nova Scotia section. This seems to happen over and over in the paper. The same type of crime, different coverage.

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