I think some letters to Yahoo News are in order

[rocktivity]

White people "find," black people "loot"?

:mad:
rocknation

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. i agree

[cyrilb]

2. Yep, and here are Tips to write to the Media

We all have an angle to comment on this, and this is an excellent one.

Bookmark these tips to Write Letters to the Editors that have more chances of getting published (the tips include a link to the Media Database to find local papers to target), and pass the link around, too.

Don't just complain, Take Action.

[rhino47]

3. Thanks for the tips and Welcome to DU cyrib.

:hi:

[NMMNG]

4. Yahoo has already received a boatload of complaints and removed the photos

Hence this statement :

To Yahoo! News readers:

News photos are an especially popular section of Yahoo! News. In part, this is because we present thousands of news photos from some of the leading news services, including The Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France Press. To make this volume of photos available in a timely manner, we present the photos and their captions as written, edited and distributed by the news services with no additional editing at Yahoo! News.

In recent days, a number of readers of Yahoo! News have commented on differences in the language in two Hurricane Katrina-related photo captions (from two news services). Since the controversy began, the supplier of one of the photos – AFP – has asked all its clients to remove the photo from their databases. Yahoo! News has complied with the AFP request.

Here are a few of the postings that have commented on the photo caption language:

(comments at above link)

Snopes also has a page with "explanations" from the photographers as to why they used the language they did in their photo captions. I don't buy it myself.