Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.
Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.
People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.
I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.
Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.
I would never deny the importance of the media, but I wouldn't go out of the way to splash my pictures all over town. I'd rather let my work do the talking.
Everybody handles protesters differently.
You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.
People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media.
Every journalist loves a peaceful protest -whether it makes news, shakes up a political season, or holds out the possibility of altering history.