Journalists being caught in police violence shapes how protest history gets written
Evidence
It feels a little silly to say that the police attacked “us,” when the reporters were probably not the intended target of the offensive, and we were not the brave protagonists actually trying to take risks and make history that night. But the fact that journalists also suffered is, I believe, crucial for understanding how these events shaped history. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 38
Categorization
- SEED: Angle: the media’s physical embeddedness in protest violence — where reporters are hit, how that bends their coverage and the historical record.
- XREF: connects to: A journalist’s source network shapes which narrative of a protest they produce — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 416; Media coverage persistently equated protest property damage with police violence — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1548; Underground papers performed fake police interventions as participatory spectacle — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 1179 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Media coverage asymmetrically brands property damage as violence while normalizing police violence
#expands(0.88) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1548 - Underground papers performed fake police interventions as participatory spectacle
#jokes-about(0.82) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1179 - Early anti-war marches gained media attention only through police violence
#exemplifies(0.82) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 367 - Media coverage persistently equated protest property damage with police violence
#expands(0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1548 - The protestors deliberately staged a media event for television coverage
#qualifies(0.76) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 299 - Media legitimacy determined which Brazilian protests counted as History
#qualifies(0.71) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 673