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If You Were Wondering Why Protest Coverage Seems Fairly Muted, NPR's Public Editor Confirms This is Intentional (lemmy.ml)

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https://www.threads.net/@nprpubliceditor/post/DIhOEQQOyqP

EDIT: Also worth noting that the next nationwide protest date for 50501 is May 1st

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[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

I agree with you if press coverage is there. They're not covering the protests because they're not interesting, though.

That said, I'd call this lazy journalism. How about going out there to interview people? Start telling the stories of the people they talk with?