Another Violent Protest? New Perspectives to Understand Protest Coverage

This study assesses the relationship between two well-established sets of frames to better understand news coverage massive political protests. By relying on Semetko and Valkenburg’s generic McLeod Hertog’s protest frames, this aims identify whether certain emphasized in stories increase tendency delegitimize movements. To end, we analyzed Chile’s Estallido Social, a series demonstrations that developed across country from October December 2019. Data for come published by Radio Bío Bío, most trusted outlet country, according Reuters Institute. analyzing sample 417 stories, found replicated patterns usually movements, as many focused violent acts depicted demonstrators deviant status quo. We also direct which presence former determines latter. Generic provide information about how media interpret package news, turn affects demonstration-related features pay attention to. As such, argue combining both issue-specific is helpful approach understanding complexities coverage.