Protests aren’t what they look like on TV

What protest news coverage does — and doesn’t — show you. Become a Video Lab member! The killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery have ignited protests around the world. Those protests have dominated news coverage. But when it comes to communicating the protests’ scale, character, and purpose, a lot of that coverage falls short. Part of that is because of the media’s incentive to highlight the most dramatic imagery; it’s why so much protest coverage has been fil