Most of the national outlets never covered the Never Again Protest movements. WaPo did a cursory story when they shut down DHS headquarters. NYT did an opinion piece. Some coverage after the ICE worker ran over a protester. Only, NBC (website) did a detailed story early on. https://twitter.com/Blackamazon/status/1307359636077424640">https://twitter.com/Blackamaz...

The National media extensively covered the "open up" protests. They gave almost no ink to the "keep shit closed" i.e. body bag protests that same weekend. I learned about those from AJ+ who the Trump Administration is making register as a Foreign Agent. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/09/trump-doj-al-jazeera-fara-uae-qatar/">https://www.motherjones.com/politics/...

Early on in the pandemic San Francisco was going to house homeless people in a large convention center where they could easily catch/spread the virus.

I learned about that as an *offhanded comment* while listening to 99 percent invisible. https://48hills.org/2020/05/protest-caravan-demands-hotel-rooms-for-homeless/">https://48hills.org/2020/05/p...

The TL;DR is that often the national media gave outsized attention to marginal views, and in the process normalized them and helped them grow.

for historical context, see also: climate denialism.

The TL;DR background of this story is I kept wondering about whose grievances were deemed "newsworthy" and "legitimate." As a science reporter, my default is to go look at the peer reviewed research. https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/06/its-time-to-change-the-way-the-media-reports-on-protests-here-are-some-ideas/">https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/06/i...

The things I have learned are not worth being covered in national publication unless they become so big it becomes obvious you& #39;re ignoring it.

- climate protests
- green new deal
- labor protests
- ICE protests

- police reform
- any kind of reform unless you& #39;re talking "regulatory" reform which is actually code word for reducing regulations.

And if they do cover it it will definitely be both sides and so muddled you won& #39;t know what& #39;s actually happening.