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Orlando Sentinel to stop publishing mugshots

Posted on 6/17/20 at 1:26 pm
Posted by VolsOut4Harambe
Atlanta, GA
Member since Sep 2017
12856 posts
Posted on 6/17/20 at 1:26 pm
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"The Orlando Sentinel is discontinuing the posting of arrest mugshot galleries effective today," began the three-paragraph post on their site. "We’ve come to realize that without context, the galleries have little journalistic value and may have reinforced negative stereotypes."


Just gonna leave this one out there.
Posted by CarRamrod
Spurbury, VT
Member since Dec 2006
57472 posts
Posted on 6/17/20 at 1:27 pm to
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may have reinforced negative stereotypes."
there is a reason it is a stereotype.

Posted by stout
Smoking Crack with Hunter Biden
Member since Sep 2006
167499 posts
Posted on 6/17/20 at 1:28 pm to
It's interesting how statistics are now stereotypes. It's like they don't understand how stereotypes come about.
Posted by Box Geauxrilla
Member since Jun 2013
19118 posts
Posted on 6/17/20 at 1:29 pm to
Facts are racist.
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
Member since Jul 2013
35428 posts
Posted on 6/17/20 at 1:29 pm to
Are they saying they expect mostly black folks to be arrested?

Isn’t that incredibly racist?
Posted by GeauxWrek
Somewhere b/w Houston and BR
Member since Sep 2010
4294 posts
Posted on 6/17/20 at 1:30 pm to
Who reads newspapers anymore?
Posted by OBReb6
Memphissippi
Member since Jul 2010
37911 posts
Posted on 6/17/20 at 1:30 pm to
If they wanted to do this in a way that actually met the outcome they desired they should have just done it and not told anyone. Now they look like idiots with their explanation
This post was edited on 6/17/20 at 1:32 pm
Posted by MightyYat
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2009
24515 posts
Posted on 6/17/20 at 1:31 pm to
So showing ACTUAL criminals is not reinforcing a stereotype.....


Posted by TheCaterpillar
Member since Jan 2004
76774 posts
Posted on 6/17/20 at 1:31 pm to
I will say I think posting mugshots en masse without context or a backstory for each is a fricking abhorrent practice.

Quite a few of those people were found innocent in court, had charges dropped, etc., but their mugshot being in the paper ruined their lives or made their lives very hard.

Posted by East Coast Band
Member since Nov 2010
62881 posts
Posted on 6/17/20 at 1:32 pm to
Are they going to stop publishing stats and photos from NBA games, too?
Because there is a stereotype that most players are African American
Posted by Ed Osteen
Member since Oct 2007
57524 posts
Posted on 6/17/20 at 1:32 pm to
not the Orlando sentinel!
Posted by Harry Morgan
Member since Sep 2019
9193 posts
Posted on 6/17/20 at 1:39 pm to
Were they in color or black and white?
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