Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis: I wrote this in 2020 in reaction to the George Floyd protest. I'm a Science journalist at heart and so whenever I have a question I'm always looking for data. I was looking for a gut check.

I swear I don't get any kick backs for reposting this but the underlying issue is the media has a bias against protest especially liberal protest. It's called the protest paradigm and its been documented for more than 40 years at this point. Link in next skeet.

Crickets who where? Just because nobody organized a pussy hat march in front of your house on Saturday morning when you didn't have anything better going on doesn't mean people aren't and haven't been holding sustained protests in the streets, at city councils, and at fascists' houses for years

I wrote this in 2020 in reaction to the George Floyd protest. I'm a Science journalist at heart and so whenever I have a question I'm always looking for data. I was looking for a gut check.

It’s time to change the way the media reports on protests. Here are some ideas.www.niemanlab.org "People kept sharing these videos that were coming up and it was unambiguous what was going on. We weren't looking at a stream of videos of violence erupting or clashes breaking out. We were looking a...

It's why there was more attention to the "open up" protests during covid then the "keep them closed protests" But in general journalism is really weird: there's incredible scholarship on how to do our jobs more effectively (i.e in service to democracy) but little gets filtered into best practice.

(And yes I know it's kind of confusing that I critique media while also being media)

In general there are way more protests than you think, few if them get reported on. If you wonder about the protests of Just Stop Oil part of what protest paradigm scholarship shows is very disruptive protests are more likely to get attention.

That's why you know about those protests and not other climate protests. This is not a support or critique of their efforts. It is a contextualization. Throwing paint at Stonehenge gets more attention than a die in, in front of JP Morgan chase

I do also feel sort of insane in that they have been super upfront about taking those strategies (to the point of targeting the same art!) from the suffragette movement, arguably the most effective protest movement in UK history! It’s not out of nowhere

It’s the same over here in Germany - too little coverage of liberal protest, but also - young people glue themselves to highways and they’re “climate terrorists.” Farmers build tractor-blockades on the highways and they’re “fighting for their livelihood.” 🙄

During the first Gulf War, there were protests at the federal building against it. At first the media showed up and undercounted the protestors, protest leaders actually had people sign in to document attendance. Media stopped reporting numbers, then stopped reporting. Left bad taste in my mouth.

In April ~75 folks, mostly disabled, protested SF public health dept stripping covid protections in healthcare. I tried to place op-eds. Only coverage was East Bay student reporter for campus paper (who did better than any veteran journo). I know how this works & yet cccadvocate.com/13754/news/c...

Advocates protest end of SF mandate for health workers to wear masks, raising questions over the future of the policy in the Bay Areacccadvocate.com On Tuesday, April 16, dozens of “Keep Masks in Health Care” demonstrators gathered outside San Francisco City Hall, protesting the ending of a county mask mandate. An order from the health department...

nah, being "self-critical" is important for improving things.

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