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Here's a perspective on why the protesters seem to dislike news media coverage. (I'll add that there is much criticism here with little investigation of the act
by hackuser 11y ago
Here's a perspective on why the protesters seem to dislike news media coverage. (I'll add that there is much criticism here with little investigation of the actual facts and assertions of the protesters. I'm not trying to take a side, but to add some substance to the discussion.)
"There’s a good reason protesters at the University of Missouri didn’t want the media around"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/11/11/theres-a-good-reason-protesters-at-the-university-of-missouri-didnt-want-the-media-around/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/11/11/...
Certainly, Tai - like any journalist - had a legal right to enter the space, given that it was in a public area. But that shouldn’t be the end of this story. We in the media have something important to learn from this unfortunate exchange. The protesters had a legitimate gripe: The black community distrusts the news media because it has failed to cover black pain fairly. ...
I've read plenty, for many years, that corroborates this point of view.
- facepalm 11y agoYou could formulate that in a more straightforward way: people don't want stuff they disagree with being written in the newspaper.