News coverage massively overrepresents violent over nonviolent claim-making.

Evidence

Visibly violent events are much more often the lead story than are nonviolent events, even when the claims resemble each other. That is true for two reasons. First, disruptions of routine, especially violent disruptions of routine, receive much more attention in general from media than does conformity to routine; just think of a North American metropolitan newspaper’s “rape and murder” page. Second, collective violence often occurs when governmental power is at stake: civil wars rage, revolutions displace governments, governmental forces strike back at dissidents, dissidents mount attacks at governmental agents, or all at once. Threats to governmental power generate more news than does its maintenance. In all the countries on the roster, especially the less authoritarian ones, the great bulk of collective claim-making actually goes on without violence, and passes unreported by international media such as Reuters and the BBC. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 225

Categorization

• QUESTION: This is the methodological crux underlying the whole book: if media overreport violence, what does Tilly’s event sample actually represent? Pressing to see how he handles this bias later.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in whether institutional absorption of subordinate-groups really shows up in evidence here, given claims themselves resemble each other but only violent ones get covered. — connects to: Media overrepresent violence, hiding that most claim-making is nonviolent. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 225; Muslim-perpetrated attacks receive dramatically disproportionate news coverage — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 217; Media coverage of Muslim violence superficially supports an Islam-violence link — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 282 (+4 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 225

Broader Connections

• Media overrepresent violence, hiding that most claim-making is nonviolent. #expands (0.95) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 225
• Muslim-perpetrated attacks receive dramatically disproportionate news coverage #exemplifies (0.78) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 217
• Media underreport terrorist attacks when the perpetrators are non-Muslim #exemplifies (0.76) — Muhammad Asad Latif, The Identity of Religion Always Comes Up, 89
• Media coverage persistently equated protest property damage with police violence #exemplifies (0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1548
• Media coverage asymmetrically brands property damage as violence while normalizing police violence #exemplifies (0.74) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1548
• Coverage of extremist offshoots makes rare violence stand in for an entire faith #exemplifies (0.73) — Emily Greene-Colozzi, Amy Adamczyk, and Senahan Kiyal Keles, Differences in Religious Framing of…, 26
• Media coverage of Muslim violence superficially supports an Islam-violence link #exemplifies (0.72) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 282