A journalist’s source network shapes which narrative of a protest they produce

Evidence

As chance would have it, Federico Freitas, the vegan musician who had founded the Verdurada or “Veggiefest” punk night (where both the MPL and the Movimento Sem Terra had events over the years) back in 1996, was following me on Twitter, and he put me contact with MPL member Daniel Guimarães, famous in the activist scene for founding the punk band Guerra de Classes (“Class War”) and his role in the Free Fare revolts in Florianópolis a decade prior. So I had a source in the original movement throughout most of June. This must have made me more likely to trace things back to the original intentions of that organization. Was this analysis more true than all the other possible analyses? I have no idea. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 416

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Global media templates shape how local protests are interpreted and copied — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 272; Journalists’ political biases shape which protest demands they report — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 414; Mass protests are fundamentally illegible and media coverage inevitably distorts them — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 415 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Journalists’ imagined audience shapes how they represent minority groups #expands (0.84) — Nadia Haq, ‘The National Media Just Sees Muslims…, 9
• Physical proximity to a community changes how journalists report on it #expands (0.82) — Nadia Haq, ‘The National Media Just Sees Muslims…, 48
• Journalists being caught in police violence shapes how protest history gets written #expands (0.78) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 38
• Underground papers performed fake police interventions as participatory spectacle #exemplifies (0.72) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1179