Media coverage persistently equated protest property damage with police violence

Evidence

One of the most notable features of the media coverage since Day X has been the persistent equivalence it has made between violence and property damage. Having narrowly avoided two kettles, I hardly see any violence or property damage. The violence I do see is perpetrated by the police, as a line of baton-swinging cops impose a kettle on protestors standing on Whitehall. I only learn about Alfie Meadows later, and the disjunction between the reality of the demo and its media representation becomes even more maddening, to the point where I can hardly bear to watch the news coverage any more. While a young student has a brain operation, the media are fixated on a cosmetic “attack” on the heir to the throne’s car. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1548

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Media castigated BLM protesters as looters to delegitimize grievances — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1142; Media assumptions about a movement shape what they subsequently find. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam: How the Media and the…, 274; Media could not comprehend altruistic motivations among student protesters — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1516 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Media castigated BLM protesters as looters to delegitimize grievances #exemplifies (0.95) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1142
• Media assumptions about a movement shape what they subsequently find. #expands (0.80) — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 274
• Media could not comprehend altruistic motivations among student protesters #expands (0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1516