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Even in an article about the media under reporting the protests the protests are under reported. In her opening sentences Molloy says

On Saturday, April 5, hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets across the nation to protest the harmful policies of Donald Trump's second term. The "Hands Off!" demonstrations represented what organizers called "the largest single day of protest since Trump entered office" with more than 1,100 rallies scheduled

“Hundreds of thousands”, she writes when she knows to was millions. Says so herself a few sentences later. Yet in her opening line she under reports it by a factor of ten. Merely “scheduled” when she knows they actually happened.

That’s not just shoddy reporting, it’s enabling while pretending to be criticizing.

Print Media to Mass Protests: "Please Turn to Page 18"
Apr 12
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