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And student journalists in new york city, having seen their university lock reporters out of the story, are filling the void in the news coverage. The protest movement rocking College Campuses in the United States is like nothing. The country has seen for decades. The students hunkered down at 30 plus universities are demanding those institutions divest from companies that profit from the is really military judging by the violent backlash from militarized Police Forces. That kind of dissent against the complicity in a genocide is off limits in president bidens america. This movement is not just about students, professors, faculty members are also involved. And they have been mischaracterized at times, demonized by the american Political Class and much of the news media treating anti zionist slogans as evidence of anti semitism. They have smeared the demonstrations as racist for months. Now, american politicians and news outlets have been in lock step, distorting the facts helping is real justified. Its mass slaughter of palestinians in garza, and that same coalition has no effectively put targets on the backs of students. Young american voices of defense in the so called land of the free divest or prepare for protest on your doorstep. Thats the message american universities have been getting for 3 weeks now. From students demanding their school sever all ties to any company profiting from the war on gosh, to campus on opposite coasts columbia in new york. And you see a late in los angeles have been the primary flash points with 2 Police Forces, having different responses. Disproportionate violence against the protesters, cnn y c. While you know way, when a pro israel mob attack the pro power started in cabinet with fireworks medical rods and tappers freight police were nowhere to be found. The when they finally showed up the way that the intent firing rubber bullets and slash bang explosives at the 2nd. The crackdowns came amidst some questionable Media Coverage in the us that verges on the demon orientation of a pro peace movement. With students somehow getting a lumped in with previous threats to american democracy. This does look like january 6th, what a terrible example for our students, for News Networks and television stations and anchors to use it to explain. The protests that are happening at us universities is a politicized codified message that these are radical fanatical groups. They need to be incarcerated. You need to be prosecuted and persecuted. Theres no other solution to it. Now from our perspective as protestors, we were engaging in our Civil Liberties regarding free speech and the right to protest and we are doing so in a peaceful manner. However, the actions of the government, the limits of state troopers against Peaceful Protesters is an active buttons. Specifically for political me and the fact that my own government would take that stance against me and my fellow protestors for utilizing a Civil Liberties is just a catastrophe in such a politically divided country during an election year. It is noteworthy that the democratic president and key republican c i to i on the campus protest we met with your students who are in fear. They cant come on campus. They cant study for their final exams. That framing of the protests as inherently anti semitic tests persistence. We feature in the mainstream Media Coverage. We can just august 2024 in los angeles marketing back to the 19th thirtys in europe. I do not say that lightly, the fair among jews in this country is palpable right now. American news outlets frequently platform on the lights of jonathan green, black of the anti defamation. And influential pro is real lobby group. I for these images for the mass protesters breaking into buildings, barrett, cam and furniture and loss. Im reminded of january the 6th. Thats what this looks like today. Green black can also be counted on to can slate, criticism of israel with any sex. There have been reports of anti semitic rhetoric on campus, but they have been rare evidence of it, like this incident at columbia is extremely hard to find the and jewish students have been at the core of the protest movement on multiple campuses. They have had their religious traditions, such as the prayers that recently marked the start of passover celebrate by jews and non jews. A lie. I myself, am a jewish student. I would not be comfortable in any space that i viewed as remotely impress a. And so my experience the protestors have viewed me as a brother for groups like the 80 all to come out and say that the Palestinian Protesters on campus are equivalents, hamas and hezbollah is utterly disingenuous. Or ron has their military proxies like has vala and iran has their campus proxies like these groups like s j, p and g d p. Im not surprised that green blood is doing this, but i am surprised by a journalist, a core that has abdicated its responsibility to push back to scrutinize to ask questions instead, theyre platforming him in order to run propaganda and talking points in a way thats quite offensive. To the Media Outlets themselves, and especially especially to brace students who are taking tremendous risks in order to exercise their conscience and screen very loudly, not in our name, not in our time, no genocide against anyone ever. Again, of course, this is completely contrary to the way in which western media of the same channels themselves reflect on and represent similar actions in other countries. For example, in the air of spring uprisings in egypt, antonia and syria, and libya and elsewhere, they were running to those protest sites to celebrate how these protesters were taking over building were challenging the authoritarianism of the state and confronting police. People of the city. So many libyans, but when it comes to us territory, this is completely anathema is unacceptable. Astronomy to control the ongoing chaos that College Campuses across the United States. In the depiction of the protesters as dangerous for a threatening is not only an exaggeration, it is actually quite laughable. Nevertheless, that narrative is all over the american air with stacy something on tick tock. And theyre like, its real bad. And on how moscow and they go out and they start shouting a chance. News outlets have simultaneously overlooked a feature of this story, for which there is far more advocates. The provocative behavior of pro is really counter protest because some of whom were caused confusion. The one at Northeastern University in boston who shouted, killed the jews, prompting a police rate and the arrest of more than 100. 00 pro palestinian protest. There were disturbing incidents at u. C. L. A. Israel supporters facing on peace act releasing mice into their encampment and rushing violence upon the branding the campus protest. As anti symmetric also provides police and National Guard troops, some of whom have shown up on a correspondence with a means to justify the man handling of the protest, throwing elderly professors to the ground. And that labelled air. The symmetric hasnt just come out of fox news for the pro israel log. Its everywhere. This is incredibly concerning. The right are opportunistically and successfully using this moment in order to expand police power. At this point you can only process the lights and hurts nobodys feelings, which means its a performance. But you cant actually protest in a way that challenges power. And we should all be scared, freaking out even that if we allow them to do this in this moment, theres no limit they wont stop. University administrations are calling the police in sections of the army to arrest violently. 192021 year old who are protesting agend side. You dont call the police and the army on to campuses. When youre winning the argument, right, you call them on to campuses when youre losing and thats why were University Administrators are calling in the military and Police Forces because the narrative has failed. Those universities, their reputations as bastions of free speech, are also taking a beat. After columbia, as president called the pop up attempt village there, a clear and present danger. Police were called in arresting more than 100. 00 protesters, which the schools on Human Rights Institute been conduct after activists at the university of texas to find an order from the school to disperse. Brian police got the call and arrested 50 of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire has banned its head of jewish studies from cabins. She had already been knocked to the ground and arrested by police. But columbia story sticks that is located on there with the Upper West Side of manhattan and fame for its journalism. Many of whose graduates now were at mainstream news of friends when police came onto the campus. Columbia locked reporters out, preventing from covering the crack at a university which dispenses collect, surprise. For excellence in american journal university. These are advocating the responsibility. They should be the space precisely where students are learning, becoming critical thinkers to eventually be part of a ruling class that is going to make decisions with responsibility. And rather than in be a space where they can do that, universities have become an extension of a state at war. They are upset about the students were making their war efforts, their genocidal efforts more complicated. I have been teaching myself for 20 years and i have never seen the repression of Academic Freedom and speech in the way that i have seen across the campuses. Since october of 2023. There have been many controversial political issues where our communities have differences of opinion, but there has never been the repression of station. And in that context, does the us today at this moment stands for Media Freedom . You know, i think im, i dont think i need my ph. D and media studies to answer that question. The answer is now the, were going to do a little deeper into the story at Columbia University in new york, where students have gone for being journalists in training to journalists on the job. And their work is proving valuable. Mean obviously, robbie is here with more with the track down on profile as time protests unfolding, quite literally on the doorstep. Students at columbia journalism programs have found themselves exactly where to pull it as always hope to be at the heart of the story. Since the school has restricted Mainstream Media as access student to unless have effectively become the primary source of news, columbia has 2 main Media Outlets. The universitys newspaper, the spec data, and 880 station, w k. C, are usually the content only the 2 staff and students, but the past 2 weeks, the minute by minute on the ground reporting has attracted audiences worldwide. Theres currently unlike the opposites that are crowding around the entrances of the west bond and they are now entering the west fund with so much interest in that coverage. The unusually high traffic overloaded this big data and w. P. C. Our websites, both experience outages, beyond the live news updates the students doing this are also doing in depth investigative look, including stories on allegations of anti semitism on campus. But also editorializing producing Opinion Pieces about this close administration. And its handling of the protesters and the demands for the news organizations have benefited from the work of these young journalists. The students have set up a newsroom to 5 reports for news outlets around the world, including doing life hits on tvs. Youve been at the center of these protests not only as a student, but also as a reporter, covering much of the work has collected misinformation, circulating online and in us mainstream coverage is another way to put it journalism. Students at columbia, a schooling, the Mainstream Media on the coverage of a critically important story. Thanks me. Staying with the shortcomings in the Media Coverage of those student protests, one voice well placed to assess just white journalist. Keep getting it so badly wrong is maybe has on a former colleague of hours here at algebra. He then spent 3 years as a program host at m. S nbc and p. Talk. He left the Network Earlier this year to do his own thing hoss on has launched as a tale, a new site that he says will bring hard hitting interviews and honest bearing analysis that you wont find elsewhere. You know, ive never been afraid to of the tough questions. My time to continue doing that. Maybe hassan joins us now from washington, dc. Many you have just stepped out of the cable news ecosystem. And this past week, we spotted a tweet of your saying that the Mainstream Medias coverage of the campus protests against the gods of genocide is actually worth more biased, more dishonest, then its coverage of the gods of genocide itself. Nobody saw that coming. How is it even possible . Yeah, i wanted to say, how is that even bosom . I spent the last 6 months critique in the main stream media, both from within when i was a m as a b c. Im since i left a couple of months ago. And yet, the events of the last week, 10 days here in the United States and the coverage of whats happening on campus is, is just so, shockingly, by that im looking at whats happening and does what im saying. Well, at least as some come, good coverage of does, at least as some investigations by nbc news and bbc news and sky, and use the show. Whats happening in got mazda, 2 palestinians. I dont see any Good Journalism in the coverage of the campus partners. I see the journalist joining in uh it will pop hysteria to misrepresent facts on the ground to smear and abuse student n t will protest is wheres the coverage of the guy who turned up with a nice a pro palestine demonstration of pro is rel protester. Where is the coverage of uh, the, the pro israel protesters who shouted, killed the jews sarcastically. And the University Went interested this profile, this time student thinking, they said it, i mean, its just a cover. Just so one side of the tweet of mind that you went from was, was a direct response to say cnn segment from a straight news anchor. Basically smearing for the kids on campuses and do so much. And comparing America Today to 19 thirtys, germany, people have lost their minds. Or do you think it has anything to do with the fact that these are american institutions that are under attack as opposed to the gaza story, which is another country that the us has a relationship with a 100 percent. I think a lot of it has to do with elite media and elite politicians losing them. I never elite universities. Youll know a lot of this is going on in Ivy League Schools in columbia. And yale, there is, there was a lot of, uh, you know, uh, editors in museums, we went to the schools and whose kids that go into the schools, the politicians whose kids go to school. Thats just think that is a real issue where its very personal for a lot of people covering this stuff. And um, that adds to the level of barrel panic. Thats driving a little bit special. The determination that these protestors have shown courage in the face of suspensions expulsions from school. Extraordinary police violence. How does that contrast with the positions that weve seen in media and political heavyweights . When it comes to discussing israels assaults on garza over these last 7 months . Its a good question, which is a good comparison when we talk about kind of model coverage, we havent seen much from a political immediately People Living fee, and thats the great tragedy. If everyone in our political immediately was completely pro israel, thatd be fine. I mean, i wouldnt agree with them, but that wa