What the Media Get Wrong About Campus Protests

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🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

What the focus on violence and chaos obscures; and, a look at how Israeli media are covering the conflict.

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0:00.0	Could this be 1968 all over again?
0:04.8	Violent police raids on student protest encampments play out against the backdrop of a crucial presidential election.
0:12.1	If every election is just like 1968,
0:14.9	then no election is like 1968.
0:16.9	Maybe this election is like 2024.
0:19.7	On this week's on the media, what the press
0:21.9	are getting wrong about the campus protest.
0:24.4	I don't really think there's anything to indicate that these are like astroturfs.
0:29.9	It's college students participating in this.
0:32.0	It's college students getting arrested.
0:33.9	Also, how are Israeli media reporting on US student activism?
0:38.7	What you see as the fringe part of demonstrations in Israel, we focus on that.
0:44.4	All these demonstrations are portrayed as pro-Hama's anti-Semitic protests.
0:51.2	It's all coming up after this. Listen to Support it, WNYC Studios.
1:10.6	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:13.6	Brooke Gladstone is out this week.
1:15.3	I'm Michael Lohanger.
1:16.6	Hatred of Jews didn't begin with the Holocaust.
1:19.7	It didn't end with the Holocaust either.
1:21.8	President Joe Biden speaking on Tuesday at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's annual
1:27.4	days of remembrance ceremony.
1:29.5	There is no place on any campus in America, any place in America, for anti-Semitism or hate speech or
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