Media legitimacy determined which Brazilian protests counted as History

Evidence

Sure, there were protests. Big ones. But these were already coded as partisan, pro-PT demonstrations. The media did not give them the right to stand in for “the people,” as we had to demonstrators in the second half of June 2013. These red rallies did not count as History; they were seen as predictable manifestations of support for a particular party. There was no surprise, and they were not treated as major news. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 673

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Media’s power to decide which crowds embody ‘the people’ and which are mere partisans is a top-tier lens on protest legitimation, and it directly pays off the book’s core question of when protest becomes History.
• XREF: connects to: Well-planned protest spectacles can dictate front-page coverage — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 369; Brazilian television coverage legitimated the protests into a mass movement. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 400; Covert framing, not policy substance, determined public protests — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 480 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Covert framing, not policy substance, determined public protests #corroborates (0.80) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 480