“The media loves talking to PR people when it comes to corporations,” Piker said. “They have no problem talking to the media liaison when it comes to the NYPD or the LAPD and writing down everything they say without even asking remotely contentious questions. But when it comes to students, they don’t treat these students as an organized entity at all.” https://wapo.st/3y2WMp3
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They know that they can go down the line of students and someone is going to say something that is stupid or fits the narrative they are pursuing
@taylorlorenz This is really reminding me of the Occupy protests, which IIRC was the first time livestreaming saw widespread use at political events. For pretty much the same reason too. It was so frustrating being on site and seeing the media twist everything that happened there into a narrative about how dangerous and irresponsible we were. As if humans in any other context never had problems so the existence of conflict meant everything we were saying was invalid. Stay the course young ones!!
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