Is the media getting coverage of campus encampments right? 

Learn more about these encampments: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2024-05-10/police-clear-mit-gaza-encampment-arrest-10

But the story isn't being told. The protesters have become the story. The shameful part is that the protesters, when given an opportunity to speak, get shut down by their "handlers." These college students can't speak for themselves? I would be indignant if I were a student, on my campus, and some outside handler attempted to keep me from expressing my opinion or talking to a reporter. The whole protest is bogus when you refuse to talk to the press or explain what or why you are protesting. The students who go along with this are a bunch of simps who have gotten caught up in a crowd mentality event. 8% of college students involved; or: 92% of college students not involved and likely inconvenienced and deprived of a major portion of their college experience for which some have paid dearly, borrowed, and made other financial sacrifices. Ivy league and larger institutions are being shown for being largely indoctrination centers. This story has gotten to the point that it is being driven by the so called "media" and the protest has become the event, not the purported underlying situation in the Middle East. Good luck to protesters who are students who will find the price of their foolishness is more semesters to finish courses and then have future employers carefully screen them for participation in this madness. I wouldn''t hire a soul from any of these institutions

It's not whether PBS is doing it right or not, the question to ask, is PBS doing the story justice? For decades Americans have only heard one side of the debate, Israel's. I remember back in 2019, my friends and I just returned from a deployment, we were all telling each other to watch Frontline that week for the episode, "A Day in Gaza". The night it was supposed to air, GBH pulled it, along with every other PBS station in the country.... Pulled for the very same reason we're seeing these kids on college campuses get sacrificed for today, to keep quite on Israel. 2019, 5 years ago, just think what might have happened if the press did their job and made Americans more aware of what's really happening over there. Why does this country always have to rely on a Daniel Ellsberg instead of the press to break the really important news of our time?

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Not a terrible, but not a great piece. I would say that today's college protesters feel exactly the same about the "news coverage" as did the college protesters in the 60's/early 70's, as well as during the BLMs protest a few years ago: it totally sucks, both journalistically and it gives very false/misleading impressions it gives to ordinary people who, as referred to, don't go to great lengths to find out what's really going. If you ask the current protesters why they are protesting, the vast majority will say it's because of the *genocide* and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, something that's well (and grissly) documented by UN agencies and international relief organizations. But has the US news media been mentioning "genocide"? No. And by doing that, and instead substituting terms "Pro-Palestinian" or "Anti-Israel," they've been undercutting/marginalizing the main point of the protests. And there' have been lots of petty omissions, like how there's been many groups of high schoolers (aka "outside agitators" by many definitions) making organized trips to support the college protesters, but this has received almost no news coverage. And the large group of protesters down the street from the Met Gala got very marginalized in favor of the fancy gowns, and this got widely held up an an example of how messed up and un/misinformative the US mainstream news media has been. Also it now looks like much, if not the vast majority of anti-semitism chants and slurs overheard from the protests came from pro-Israeli people (well, maybe technically more Pro-Netanyahu) trying to poison the protest, and the news coverage this has....what?

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