Ferguson protesters bypassed mainstream media by becoming their own chroniclers.

Evidence

As Netta put it, “I don’t need media people, because my first-day tweets to my 91-day tweets, that’s what I’ve been doing. I was the media. So I don’t need you to push me forward in front of a camera.” … They are a study in contrasts. DeRay, a queer black graduate of an elite liberal arts college, is in constant motion. Sentences just flow from his mouth. Netta, a brilliant native of St. Louis, is reserved and cautious. Her brow is constantly furrowed, and she will speak her mind when necessary. Both are fearless. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 594

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The protestors deliberately staged a media event for television coverage — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 299; Reporters impose their internalized frameworks on the events they cover. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam: How the Media and the…, 181
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The protestors deliberately staged a media event for television coverage — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 299; Reporters impose their internalized frameworks on the events they cover. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam: How the Media and the…, 181

Broader Connections

• The protestors deliberately staged a media event for television coverage #complicates (0.75) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 299