It isn’t just Fox that is turning this conversation about everything but the essence of the issue. It’s also MSNBC.
If the visual they have is someone breaking a window, it plays all day. If it is someone who looks “radical” and screams that is the loop. If they find a non-student agitator, that will be the focus. There is almost no conve…
It isn’t just Fox that is turning this conversation about everything but the essence of the issue. It’s also MSNBC.
If the visual they have is someone breaking a window, it plays all day. If it is someone who looks “radical” and screams that is the loop. If they find a non-student agitator, that will be the focus. There is almost no conversation about what is being asked for by the demonstrators. The shorthand is that they are pro-Palestinian. What does that mean? What are people who hear this expected to think, let alone do?
The purpose of demonstrations is to get attention. It behoves the demonstrators to make it meaningful attention and build on it.
To get people to agree with their thought out and just cause.
Totally, fair enough. You're right - the broader coverage is not great across the spectrum.
It makes me wish that there were more support and guidance given across generations to college students protesting. We used to get some pretty significant advice about discipline and being aware of how things will play out on camera. I can imagine how much more difficult that is these days, given there are cameras everywhere. I wonder if the student activists have specific asks they've delivered to administrations - this is often the case for student leaders but that never gets covered. I wonder what would happen if there were more asks from folks like us to get more nuanced coverage. I don't even know where we can "ask" for that. I hope as this moment and story play out news and media outlets like Zeteo and others help spell that out.
I wonder if letters to the editor or developing some kind of broader letter writing campaign could start to have an impact. I'm not a media expert so don't know the specific leverage points to urge news outlets to have better coverage. I'm sure you and I both know (and are likely a bit cynical) about the profit-driven motives of media outlets these days. It's a frustrating and scary narrative landscape.
It isn’t just Fox that is turning this conversation about everything but the essence of the issue. It’s also MSNBC.
If the visual they have is someone breaking a window, it plays all day. If it is someone who looks “radical” and screams that is the loop. If they find a non-student agitator, that will be the focus. There is almost no conversation about what is being asked for by the demonstrators. The shorthand is that they are pro-Palestinian. What does that mean? What are people who hear this expected to think, let alone do?
The purpose of demonstrations is to get attention. It behoves the demonstrators to make it meaningful attention and build on it.
To get people to agree with their thought out and just cause.
Thanks for encouraging a thoughtful exchange.
Totally, fair enough. You're right - the broader coverage is not great across the spectrum.
It makes me wish that there were more support and guidance given across generations to college students protesting. We used to get some pretty significant advice about discipline and being aware of how things will play out on camera. I can imagine how much more difficult that is these days, given there are cameras everywhere. I wonder if the student activists have specific asks they've delivered to administrations - this is often the case for student leaders but that never gets covered. I wonder what would happen if there were more asks from folks like us to get more nuanced coverage. I don't even know where we can "ask" for that. I hope as this moment and story play out news and media outlets like Zeteo and others help spell that out.
I wonder if letters to the editor or developing some kind of broader letter writing campaign could start to have an impact. I'm not a media expert so don't know the specific leverage points to urge news outlets to have better coverage. I'm sure you and I both know (and are likely a bit cynical) about the profit-driven motives of media outlets these days. It's a frustrating and scary narrative landscape.