This is an interesting piece but seems to treat journalism as a natural process outside of human control. Like, they made a graph and learned/proved that newspapers only write about student divestment demands when they do physically visible protests and clash with police. Then, the stories that get written focus on those clashes with police rather than the substantive demands of the students. Sure, this is all true, but it's all passive voice, like journalism and policing are something akin to gravity that we can only interrogate experimentally. This is the same trick that journalists themselves pull with language like "officer-involved shootings" to talk about incidents where cops shoot citizens.<p>The honest way to say this is that mainstream outlets don't want to publish pieces that indicate what the students' demands are, and instead prefer to quote the Governor. Then one could ask why that is, and try to come to some answer.