Katrina Coverage

On August 30, Yahoo News printed two photos of people wading through water: the first of a black man with a garbage bag full of stuff he obtained by "looting", and the second of a white couple with bread and soda that they obtained by "finding" those items.

This trivial difference was immediately seized upon by the left as proof of racism.

From Van Jones: "This is the kind of shameful bias that keeps the country divided, even during awful tragedies like this."

From Byron Williams: "The journalistic double standard is so obvious it does not warrant comment, but there is something more important than the apparent racism."

Snopes has demolished the claim of racism by printing the comments of the photographers involved.

Links to other sites that showed these pictures will be provided later.

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