U.S. News & World Report Uses Apparent Image Of Sikh Man For Terrorism Story

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Huffington Post

01/30/2018 01:09 pm ET
U.S. News & World Report Uses Apparent Image Of Sikh Man For Terrorism Story
The outlet has since replaced the image.

By Kimberly Yam
U.S. News & World Report is in hot water over its choice of imagery for a recent article on terrorism.

The news outlet used a Getty Images photo of a turban-wearing Indian soldier ― likely a Sikh ― to accompany the piece headlined “How Terrorism Is Taught Around The World.” And people were not happy.

Social media users and members of the Sikh community spoke out, labeling the outlet “irresponsible” and guilty of perpetuating a false stereotype.

The outlet did not issue a public apology. But following the backlash, the image was soon replaced with a photo of New York’s Twin Towers with smoke coming out of the buildings after the 9/11 attacks.

Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/us-news-world-report-used-photo-of-sikh-man-for-piece-about-terrorism_us_5a6f577ae4b01fbbefb48d25?section=us_us-news

[BumRushDaShow]

1. No more editors or vetting anymore. nt

[IronLionZion]

2. Unless the Indian soldier was portrayed as fighting against terrorists

the quality of journalism at many publications has gotten truly deplorable.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. The caption at Getty Images is "an Indian soldier runs for cover outside ...

... the Taj Mahal Palace & Hotel during an armed siege, on November 28, 2008 in Mumbai, India". If they knew to use an image they'd need to pay for, they ought to have known to check the caption. There's no mention of India in the article, and wasn't in the original - see https://web.archive.org/web/20180123154110/https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2018-01-23/what-do-countries-teach-about-terrorism . They used no caption for the photo at all, apart from credited the photographer and Getty. So I think nearly everyone would assume that was meant to show "terrorism" (since it's nothing to do with "teaching" about it).

[IronLionZion]

5. And no mention of white terrorists either

as they continue to perpetuate racism against brown people, especially turban wearing brown people.

[Fred Sanders]

3. Just another example of rampant racism in even moderate RW media. Or massive ignorance. Or both.