What do you make of Berger’s argument? Do you agree, disagree, or something in between? Use the information from Chapter 4 of They Say/I Say and the “Sheridan Baker Thesis Machine” and write a thesis statement in which you take a position on Berger’s argument.

I quite frankly stand with Berger’s argument because throughout the reading and the photographs shown to coincide with them it is relevant to note that even when this time period was happening black violence and racial anxieties were on a high rise. As stated by Berger, editors who were mainly white at the time only used images to their advantage to basically feed to the narrative to make black people seem as if they were helpless and depended on others to fight with them as they fight the struggles of an unfair justice system and government entirely. That wasn’t the case though as many images started to flood that were never used to show how much power a protest held for the fight for equal rights for their own people and how much bravery was actually seen among these people. As of today, racial anxieties and police brutality/violence have been very noticeable on social media surround the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Elijah McClain, etc. This narrative that Berger’s pointed out is still seen very much alive today as we see new images of the BLM protests. News outlets make the protesters seem violent and aggressive looters when in reality they are peaceful by taking many actions such as silent protests, petitions, organizations, etc. But, that’s not the narrative news outlets want people to see because it wouldn’t get as much attention. This is why I frankly agree with Berger’s outlook on the way people are perceived by news outlets and how things may seem one way when there is another side of the story.