In recent years, though, they have received much less media attention.Īccording to our analysis of closed captioning data of cable news broadcasts from the TV News Archive 1 as well as headlines of online news articles in Media Cloud’s database, 2 the phrase “Black Lives Matter” appeared less than half as frequently on both mediums between 20 as it did from 2014 to 2016.
These protests, often grouped under the umbrella of the Black Lives Matter movement, featured prominently in national media during and after the 2014 demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri. But the media hasn’t paid much attention to protests against police brutality or misconduct over the last few years.
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