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I wonder if it has anything to do with being unable to prove it was looting? Did the writer take the photograph, or did the photographer watch the scene and tell the writer the story behind the photo? Or was the writer just handed a photo and told to write about it?
If the guy in the first picture actually owned those items (who's to say he didn't?) then stating in a newspaper that he was looting might cause a hell of a lot of embarassment. It's accusing him of a crime that for all I know he may not have commited. The writers/editors of the second article might not have wanted to accuse people of looting if they didn't know the facts. All of this is regardless of skin color.
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