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I can't breathe.
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These were George Floyds last words spoken on May 25th
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of 2000 and 20 this phrase became a rally and
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crying the protests that followed, which quickly Dan Mass media
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attention. That's why I chose to study the media portrayal
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of the black lives matter.
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Protests using the protest paradigm, which sets out to frame
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protesters, is deviant, according to Leopold, in about 2000 and
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17, and creates a framework of a battle between police
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officers and protesters rather than a debate about the actual
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issues. According to press, the 2000 and five The three
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ways I found the media portrays, the protests were overly
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violent, non violent or generally violent.
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I chose to do the study for a numerous amount
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of reasons, like in this image, we can see that
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black lives matter is a very socially important movement.
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There's a bunch of different people getting together in rallying
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together over something they all believe is an important issue.
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Black lives matters of fairly young movement, founded in 2014
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and still is growing to this day.
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I think it's interesting, according to Gibson and Wolfsfeld, that
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movements depend on media far more than media depends on
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movement, just meaning that media has a lot more range
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over what they could talk about a lot, a lot
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more directions.
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They can steer movement stories in the way that the
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media presents.
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Ideas is very important because it represents the way a
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lot of people can feel about issues before they actually
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look into things themselves.
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This leads me to my research question.
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How is the online news media portraying the black lives
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matter protests in 2000 and 20 I did this using
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qualitative content analysis of eight articles where I read each
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one looking for language, images and features of the protest
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paradigm treats.
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All of these articles were from a time range of
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early June to the early September, because I feel like
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that's when the protests were the most prevalent.
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Four features of the protest paradigm, according Toa Brassed, a
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2000 and five.
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Our narrative pushing where they frame where people frame protesters
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is deviant and violent.
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They use official sources such a ZX, um, state documents
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or police reports to get their point across.
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They'll often use surveys or public opinion to make the
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protesters look like a minority, thus meaning that their opinion
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is less important than the public opinion.
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The fourth way is to generally just frame protesters is
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deviant and violent, so that's especially using the phrase riots
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and things like that.
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The other important feature of the protest paradigm, according to
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Smith Smith, a tall 2000 and one, was that the
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media often pushes the agenda.
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The media wants to push on the movement and not
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what the actual movement stands for the first way about
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the media portrayed.
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The protests were inherently violent, such as the articles used
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by the Federalists and Fox News.
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The federalist use phrases such as there are no peaceful
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protesters in Portland and violent riots.
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Along with saying that the protesters were eating in a
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betting they used official sources such as the statement from
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the Department of Homeland Security, Fox News on Lee mentioned
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places where violence occurred.
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They use phrases such as bracing for riots, another weekend
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of lawlessness and unrest, and the official sources they chose
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to use where tweets from the Seattle Police Department.
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Yeah, they also use images to show deviance.
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This image is this image is from the federalists and
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it creates a narrative of chaos where it shows only
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the protesters and it frames.
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Um, it creates that framework of protesters versus the police,
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even though we don't physically see the police in the
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image. This also show this is also representative of Coward
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2000 and 16 that mentions how the media tends to
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Onley, show images of protesters or only show images of
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police in rarely shows images of both of them together.
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The second way that media portrayed the protest was general
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violence, such as the articles from The New York Post
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in The Washington Post.
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The difference between the two types of violence is that
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the first two articles display inherent violence without cause.
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The New York Post article said.
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Protest protests sometimes turn violent, implying that protests haven't always
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been violent.
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The Washington Post article uses phrases such as weeks of
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civil unrest and clashes between activists and authorities, which, while
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are so loaded phrases are not as loaded as the
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ones In the previous articles.
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The New York Post features an interview with the black
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lives matter near chairperson Hank Newsome and The Washington Post
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paraphrases tweets from the Portland Police Department as their official
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sources. Although these four articles did not display the protest
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paradigm, they did display certain features of the protest paradigm.
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CNN The New York Times is the day the Morristown
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daily record in Time magazine all had different aspects of
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the protest paradigm, such as CNN's use of official sources,
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where they interviewed a Democratic consultant, a demographer in a
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Democratic pulling strategist.
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To get their point across.
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Time magazine used public opinion when they surveyed when they
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displayed a survey showing that over 93% of protests were
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nonviolent. But 42% of people still believed they were.
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CNN used a bunch of language.
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Such a ZX transracial coalition in a crystallizing political moment
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on The New York Times did the same thing.
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Calling the white protesters in Portland a beautiful thing, showing
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that language can also be used positively towards protests.
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And although not all eight articles showed features of the
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protest paradigm, half of them did fit into the protest
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paradigm. One limitation I think the study had was the
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amount of articles read.
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I think that if there were more articles read, I
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could have been able to come to a wider consensus
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or been able to see how many different articles actually
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fit into the protest paradigm regarding the protests that occurred
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in 2020.
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Like I said before, not all of the articles fit
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into the protest paradigm, but half of them still did.
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And I think it's important to note that to understand
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a movement, we really need to look past what the
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media says and find our own information.
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Like what we've seen from the articles.
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Sometimes the articles can be loaded or can be really
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aggressive towards the protesters and not fully display what the
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protest stands for.
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With politics now a lot more focus on systemic racism
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and police brutality, I think it's also important to realize
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that the media representation of the black lives matter movement
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is not off is not always representative of what they
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actually stand for.
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Overall, the way that the media is portraying the protests,
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the black the protests regarding black lives matter in 2020
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goes in one of three ways.
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They're either portrait inherently violently, generally violent or non violence.
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Sometimes, in order to truly figure out what a movement
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stands for, you have to look deeper than the media