TheConversationUS ,
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Many media outlets are paying a lot more attention to arrests than to the actual demands of protesters.

US media largely ignored campus protests until encampments (and police clearing of encampments) got going, fitting in with a general pattern, according to a researcher who studies how journalists cover protest movements:
https://theconversation.com/media-coverage-of-campus-protests-tends-to-focus-on-the-spectacle-rather-than-the-substance-229172
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MHowell ,

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People are abandoning mainstream coverage of campus protests per WAPO article by @taylorlorenz https://archive.ph/WaeRg

"Tofugh0st said that consuming Twitch live-streams of protests herself has made her more skeptical of traditional media."

Twitch streamers from the article:
Bret Hamilton?
https://www.twitch.tv/caprisunnpapi
https://www.twitch.tv/frogan
https://www.twitch.tv/tofugh0st

Can anyone provide (me) a (link to a) list of Twitch.tv streams that someone interested in these protests could watch? I've never used/watched Twitch, yet,






marioivargas ,
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@MHowell @TheConversationUS @academicchatter @taylorlorenz there's plenty of independent journalist covering this very well on plenty of channels. The Breakthrough News, The Grayzone, Glenn Greenwald, even Democracy Now has been doing better than usual and giving protesters a platform.

tony ,
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@TheConversationUS @academicchatter Meanwhile in the UK, the BBC article is actually quite good I think.. The US media could learn a lot.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw0v8d805ypo

housepanther ,
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@TheConversationUS @academicchatter It's my understanding the demands are simply divesting of companies helping out the Israeli government carry out their genocide.

ATLeagle ,
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@TheConversationUS @academicchatter yep. The conversation immediately turns to the violence and bickering over who is worse.

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