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If You Were Wondering Why Protest Coverage Seems Fairly Muted, NPR's Public Editor Confirms This is Intentional (lemmy.ml)

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EDIT: Also worth noting that the next nationwide protest date for 50501 is May 1st

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Past and future protests can be covered in press releases. Not worth sending a reporter for.
The cameras show the signs. That’s the point of the signs. Opposing politicians don’t want to comment.
General mood can be covered in seconds by images.
Why people are there again is covered by the signs and the aim of the protest. Unless people got lost on their way to the anti-hedgehog protest in the next street.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Press releases aren't very good if the press doesn't cover them
They show some signs. And a handful of signs don't convey just how many people are all shouting in unison. Cherry picking the witty quotes is like a BuzzFeed list.
Nope. Hard no. A picture speaks a thousand words, but those words are up to interpretation by the viewer. It can mean different things to different people. Photos don't convey the chants, the yelling, the questions, and the raw emotion of a crowd.
Cherry picking a few signs missing the whole point of the protest in that MILLIONS are demanding answers and change. The reason of the protest isnt what's written on the signs. It's that we are large swaths of people organizing and demanding change or answers. That they need to answer to the citizens at large. And not just the quips on a sign.

And that's not even representative of how many different fucking signs there are and if media pick up those that are more niche and don't align with the protests at large.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If only those assholes covered trump the same way and not report every little fart he or his administration expresses. There is a reason that fox talks about the d's being evil and trump is a monarch over and over, it's because it usually takes 7x for someone to hear what is being said. But you know that, don't you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Everything the President says is consequential, because he is the head of the largest(ish) military in the world, America hasnt been shy of economic and military imperialism over the past 25 years, and the Americans have decided to give their political head extreme power. To ignore him would be to ignore the gorilla in the room just because that gorilla is deranged. Excuse me, the gorilla in the room is deranged, that is NOT a gorilla anyone should be ignoring. The media are doing their job by reporting the White House. The Americans fucked up their one useful job by allowing him to be the most powerful man in the world. Again.