News

How minorities are pictured in our local paper, the "A" and Metro sections of the Florida Times Union. The statistics and what they are referenced to.
Number of white men, number of white women, number of African-American men, and number of African-American women, number of asian men, and number of asian women. Note in what context these people are portrayed:  political, governmental, expert, crimes, sports, etc.

This graph represents the percent of what race and gender that was generally shown the most in the Times-Union in a 7 day period in the cateogory of political/government.

This graph shows the race and gender shown in the 7 day period in regards to the category of crime.

This graph shows the race and gender shown in the 7 day period in regards to the category of sports.

These graphs show that most of the time the race of white with a strong pull towards males is represented in pictures of the Times-Union. But when talking about crimes, it is the African-American race that takes the lead. This shows a negative outlook on African-Americans, while keeping a positive outlook on whites. Which isn't the case always. Asians are slowing being represented more but are still not shown quite enough.
I am not surprised at the numbers, it is pretty typical of our society. I do think all races should be represented in a more evenly order but this way, with what the graphs show, it keeps certain races interesting and keeps them popular, just maybe not always in a good way.