Capitalization Reveals Media Bias

Newsroom style choices (for example capitalizing 'Black' but not 'white') function as small, visible levers that both reflect and reinforce institutional attitudes about race. Tracking these typography and style shifts offers a simple, checkable way to measure how mainstream institutions signal membership, respect, or marginalization. — If true, stylebook choices are an understudied mechanism by which media institutions encode and normalize racial hierarchies, affecting public perception and political debate.