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Wednesday, August 31, 2005

White People Find, Black People Loot

An interesting example of racism in the media's covereage of the New Orelans disaster has been circulating around the inter-web. Flickr user dustin3000 uploads two similar news photos that show flood victims in New Orleans wading in chest-deep water. In each, a person appears to be dragging a bag or box or two of food or beverages.

The images were shot by different photographers, and captioned by different photo wire services. The Associated Press caption accompanying the image with a black person says he's just finished "looting" a grocery store. The AFP/Getty Images caption describes lighter skinned people "finding" bread and soda from a grocery store. No stores are open to sell these goods.

Perhaps there's more factual substantiation behind each copywriter's choice of words than we know. But to some, the difference in tone suggests racial bias, implicit or otherwise.

Link to comparison, and here are the originals: one, two.

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Friday, August 19, 2005

A Broadband Modem That Thinks Its A Dial Up

Just set up Irish Broadband's Ripwave on my laptop. I live about two skips and a donkey's tail from the Gunniess Storehouse which provides the base for their signal. I'm trying to download a video from Fat-Pie - it's like trying to beat a rose bush into shitting candy apples.

The speed is a whopping 7.1kb/sec, with just 2.6 mb of a 36.8Mb file downloading. Over and hour and a half left to go....tick tock..tick tock. The fucking gaping disappointment of it all. And the worst thing about it is that we were going to get the 2mb Breeze option, but the stupid property management company that runs the apartment complex won't let people put fucking aerials on the roof. Not to mention that they had to re-deliver the modem cos some wingnut of a courier gave it to some random lunatic living somewhere in my apartment complex ensuring it never materialises again, while he looks at it trying to figure out is it a blender or a vibrator.

I've moved it around, covered up various aspects of it with books and other such tosh, even hired little elves to dance around with it and the connection is still unforgiveably shite. I mean the point of having the damn thing was to avoid wasting cash in net cafes and getting my downloading on. It's fine for downloading tracks actually but a complete disaster for anything thats static on the net and not dependent on someone else's upload speed.

I am not alone

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# posted by antrophe @ 4:02 AM

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Wednesday, August 31, 2005 White People Find, Black People Loot An interesting example of racism in the media's covereage of the New Orelans disaster has been circulating around the inter-web. Flickr user dustin3000 uploads two similar news photos that show flood victims in New Orleans wading in chest-deep water. In each, a person appears to be dragging a bag or box or two of food or beverages. The images were shot by different photographers, and captioned by different photo wire services. The Associated Press caption accompanying the image with a black person says he's just finished "looting" a grocery store. The AFP/Getty Images caption describes lighter skinned people "finding" bread and soda from a grocery store. No stores are open to sell these goods. Perhaps there's more factual substantiation behind each copywriter's choice of words than we know. But to some, the difference in tone suggests racial bias, implicit or otherwise. Link to comparison, and here are the originals: one, two. Labels: Internet, Politics # posted by antrophe @ 12:13 PM (0) comments Friday, August 19, 2005 A Broadband Modem That Thinks Its A Dial Up Just set up Irish Broadband's Ripwave on my laptop. I live about two skips and a donkey's tail from the Gunniess Storehouse which provides the base for their signal. I'm trying to download a video from Fat-Pie - it's like trying to beat a rose bush into shitting candy apples. The speed is a whopping 7.1kb/sec, with just 2.6 mb of a 36.8Mb file downloading. Over and hour and a half left to go....tick tock..tick tock. The fucking gaping disappointment of it all. And the worst thing about it is that we were going to get the 2mb Breeze option, but the stupid property management company that runs the apartment complex won't let people put fucking aerials on the roof. Not to mention that they had to re-deliver the modem cos some wingnut of a courier gave it to some random lunatic living somewhere in my apartment complex ensuring it never materialises again, while he looks at it trying to figure out is it a blender or a vibrator. I've moved it around, covered up various aspects of it with books and other such tosh, even hired little elves to dance around with it and the connection is still unforgiveably shite. I mean the point of having the damn thing was to avoid wasting cash in net cafes and getting my downloading on. It's fine for downloading tracks actually but a complete disaster for anything thats static on the net and not dependent on someone else's upload speed. I am not alone Labels: Internet, Rant # posted by antrophe @ 4:02 AM (0) comments	About Soundtracksforthem specialises in iconoclastic takes on culture, politics, and more shite from the underbelly of your keyboard. A still-born group blog with a recent surge of different contributers but mainly maintained by James R. Big up all the contributers and posse regardless of churn out rate: Kyle Browne, Reeuq, Cogsy, Chief, X-ie phader/Krossie, Howard Devoto, Dara, Ronan and Mark Furlong. Send your wishes and aspirations to antropheatgmail.com Label Cluster In no certain order... Politics, Guest Bloggers Interviews, Music, Internet, Guest Bloggers, Travel, Blogging, TV, Society, Film, Gig Reviews, Art, Media. The Neverending Blogroll A Womb Of Her Own Arse End Of Ireland BlissBlog BBC One Music Blog Blackdown Sound Boy Buckfast For Breakfast Customer Servitude Counago & Spaves C8 Candy PDF Mag Guttabreakz House is a Feeling Homoludo Infactah Indymedia Indie Hour Blog Jim Carroll kABooGIE MusIC Kid Kameleon Kick Magazine Toronto Libcom Matt Vinyl Modern Cadence Mongrel Nialler9 One For The Road Old Rotten Hat Pitchfork Salvo Spannered Sigla Test Thumped Newish Journalism TV Is Crying Uncarved Una Rocks Urban75 Weareie WSM Wooster Village Magazine Radical Urban Theory Archives February 2002 October 2002 April 2003 September 2003 November 2003 December 2003 January 2004 February 2004 March 2004 June 2004 September 2004 January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 Postings Gig Review: The Fall Tripod Gig Review: Gogol Bordello Broken Pencil Gets It's Irish On Fecking Civil Servents Fake Pharma Ads Vidiot: Data Entry Life and Debt Last Night Cosmo Baker Saved My Life / Hip Hop His... Eye Candy: Dufferin Hoarding Gallery Review: Heads for the heart of the Sun – The Welco... www.flickr.com This is a Flickr badge showing public photos from antrophe. Make your own badge here.
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