Cop Shoots Black Man vs Cop Shoots Man is an example. Placing race in the title of the work moves the focus. According to Frameworks Institute (2005) “articles that focus on race are explicitly intended to affect thinking about the topic” (p. 2). The first headline puts focus away from the fact that a cop has shot and killed a human being and puts the focus on the race of the victim. This changes the readers approach to the reading. And makes it easier for preconceived notations of the victims race to cloud the issue and judge the victim and what he was doing rather than on the actions of the police
Cop Shoots Black Man vs Cop Shoots Man is an example. Placing race in the title of the work moves the focus. According to Frameworks Institute (2005) “articles that focus on race are explicitly intended to affect thinking about the topic” (p. 2). The first headline puts focus away from the fact that a cop has shot and killed a human being and puts the focus on the race of the victim. This changes the readers approach to the reading. And makes it easier for preconceived notations of the victims race to cloud the issue and judge the victim and what he was doing rather than on the actions of the police