Pumpkinfest vs Ferguson: Media double standards? [pics, video]
http://twitter.com/#!/drgoddess/status/523829653715574786
Supporters of those who protested and/or rioted in Ferguson, Missouri were calling out the mainstream media for their coverage of the predominantly white rioters at Keene, New Hampshire’s “Pumpkinfest.” At the fall festival, drunken college students overturned cars, set fires, threw bottles and clashed with police. Riot gear and tear gas were used to disperse crowds. Dozens were arrested or injured.
Critics of the media do have a valid point. There probably are a lot of reasons for the difference in coverage, racial bias among them, but ultimately Pumpkinfest doesn’t further any of the media’s standard narratives. It’s the flip side to the media’s tendency to gloss over ever present inner-city violence while obsessing for weeks over gun control when a white suburban kid murders people.
Actually…I do get it. Thanks @CNN #pumpkinfest #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/WwF7Kp0dgc
— Nestlé Snipes (@ChocnessMonsta) October 19, 2014
"Rowdy" is a peculiar word for the rioters at that #pumpkinfest, @cnnbrk. About 30 were injured. How about "violent"? http://t.co/QtqzoADN1D
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) October 19, 2014
Look at this the injustice that caused them to riot is just unspeakable oh wait this is #pumpkinfest #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/0td1KkVesg
— Robshaun (@RobTakeOver) October 19, 2014
Just rowdy kids here…. #pumpkinfest how ever #Ferguson did do a third of this and we're Terrorists. pic.twitter.com/YZoUek61gF
— John Knowles (@JDKnowlse) October 19, 2014
Govt should probe if #pumpkinfest rioters have ties with #ISIS. pic.twitter.com/TM4QAb3MvB
— Khaled Bey (@KhaledBeydoun) October 19, 2014
Which picture will they use? #pumpkinfest pic.twitter.com/vqVGGaguQL
— Bianca G. (@AsetDivine) October 19, 2014
Look at these thugs,damaging their own neighborhood,how unamerican is this? #pumpkinfest pic.twitter.com/hYed8Q2Yx4
— Nick Undefeated (@KCINGUNDEFEATED) October 19, 2014
Look at the way their hands are up. That must be a gang sign. And LOOK gang colors #keene #pumpkinfest pic.twitter.com/iOIMMKdbya
— Beretta Scott King (@BaeLightyear) October 19, 2014
Video: #WhiteOnPumpkinCrime http://t.co/i606yoHn6l at #PumpkinFest. Hope Fox News is on top of this. Guard your patch.
— John Weeks (@john_weeks) October 19, 2014
VIRAL HQ #pumpkinfest riots-paintball-riot cops-arrests-fat chicks puking-and a few "people of color" #ferguson https://t.co/l3vbvQGhAg
— Mikael (@Catawba_Skies) October 19, 2014
No really. @iamjohnoliver mocked Keene for citing #pumpkinfest terrorism in request for an MRAP. DED. http://t.co/7RnAbExSpe
— Dub Pool (@dubpool) October 19, 2014
"Unruly" and "rowdy" for white crowds rioting at #pumpkinfest. Racial coding in media (CNN) at it's most obvious. Black ppl= "violent".
— Heather (@LadySnarksalot) October 19, 2014
Can't wait for the #DonLemon @cnn special on the #Keene #pumpkinfest #pumpkinriots! pic.twitter.com/bcSC4xPSnm
— T. (@wlfpack81) October 19, 2014
These young thugs are exactly why no one respects the white community, amiright? #pumpkinfest pic.twitter.com/ScOji0dkDf
— Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) October 19, 2014
"Unruly" and "rowdy" is how @cnn described #pumpkinfest rioters. I'm surprised CNN didn't call them "naughty".
— PragmaticObotsUnite (@PragObots) October 19, 2014
Let's wait for all the facts. We don't know yet what the pumpkins did to those white kids to start it. #pumpkinfest
— the silver burrito (@occbaystreet) October 19, 2014
Waiting for the think pieces to roll in on #pumpkinfest
— John Ketchum (@Ketchcast) October 19, 2014
Police at the scene in #Keene, NH deny rumors police dogs and/or rubber bullets were used to disperse crowds. #Pumpkinfest
— Delaney Chambers (@delaneychambers) October 19, 2014
Can someone ask Ryan “Rubber Bullets” Reilly to verify?
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