"These core elements – grievances, demands, disruption, confrontation and spectacle – are present in nearly all protests.
[But] time and again, #coverage tends to headline the parts of the protest that are sensational and #disruptive.
And this neglects the political substance of the protests."
This kind of coverage also plays into the false narrative that protesters are "radicals" or even "terrorists".
It enables that framing.
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