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First there is barely any, what is happening there is military style intervention that same media would happily report if it was happening somewhere else. And
by desireco42 10y ago
First there is barely any, what is happening there is military style intervention that same media would happily report if it was happening somewhere else.
And secondly, when it gets reported, it is heavily spinned with corporate interests in mind. Protesters are not crazy, unreasonable people. They've been justified with recent accidents that happened, which is exactly what they were warning about.
- ChuckMcM 10y agoI hear you but you missed my point. When protesters block roads and burn property you get a big police response, it happened in Ferguson it's happening in Standing Rock. The difference in news coverage depends on WHY people are blocking streets and burning things. In Ferguson the viewing/reading/listening public could relate police killing an unarmed black civilian by a nearly all white police force with race relation issues. In Standing Rock the people viewing/reading/listening to the news from there cannot relate to people demonstrating against a project that has met every legal obligation and answered every legitimate challenge. The folks on the ground don't like it, but the rest of the world doesn't seem to care that they don't like it. Nobody has been able to explain why we should care. And don't say "gee the police could do some military style intervention on you too!" which I would totally expect if a few hundred of us start burning things and blocking the roads. Explain to the public, like they are 5, why they should prefer to stop this pipeline rather than to build it.