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The false media focus on violence: If it bleeds it still leads

By on September 14, 2017 in Digital Activism, Facebook, Journalism, Police, Social Movements, Sociology, Twitter

On Sunday, August 27, in downtown Berkeley, I witnessed thousands of protesters raising their voices against a planned white supremacist “Patriot Prayer” rally. In my decades as a documentary filmmaker of activism and now an academic studying movements and media, it was one of the most positive, diverse and unifying gatherings I ever observed. While […]

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