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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] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Thing is NPR should be promoting protests and gs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Why?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

They just got defunded, for one. For another, the collapse of our government seems imminent?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How does that affect the newsworthiness of a protest? It seems like you just came up with two bigger, higher priority stories that they should be covering.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

Because people need to rise up