Is the Press Racist?

I was stunned skimming through the top headlines today. Not by just all the carnage and tragedy this world is suffering, but at how low the Associated Press (@AP) has sunk to garner clicks and continue to stir the pot of racism in this country. The same applies to many of the other media venues out there.
    I can't be the only person who has noticed this trend. Two headlines, two fallen to police bullets. Look at the difference and decide for yourself.




AP Headline labels Alton Sterling "black man"




NY Daily News Headline lists white Dylan Noble by name

    I find this trend appalling. Not only does this habit of the nationwide press marginalize Black Americans by treating them as a bucket labeled "black man," but it continues to expand the racial divide by treating whites as individual humans with names and faces.
    Both of these men resisted arrest. Both were shot by police IN THE SAME WEEK. One white, one black. Dylan Noble, the white man, is continually referenced in headlines by his name. Not his race, not his religion, not anything but his name. Meanwhile, the press insists upon referring to Alton Sterling as "black man shot by police." He doesn't have a name or a face according to the press. Why? Do they see him as less human than Dylan Noble? Is it more important to incite the Black Lives Matter movement by reminding him he was a person of color than to refer to him as an individual, a human, an American just like Dylan Noble?
    I don't get it, but I do. In their pursuit of advertising clicks and retweets, the AP reporters have lost sight of the humanity behind their headlines. That makes me sad, and a little bit angry. Maybe next, the Black Lives Matter movement should pressure the media to start referring to black Americans by their names so we, as a country, stop labeling people as black, white or anything in between and start seeing each other as simply people.