Watching the watchdogs: How US media weaponised campus protests coverage

Pro-Palestinian student protesters link arms as Chicago police officers prepare to begin arrests at the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, on May 4, 2024 [Alex Wroblewski/EPA] A great, novel experiment in political physics is under way in the United States, as the unstoppable moral force of youth-led protests against Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza runs into the immovable object of the

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"Most of the “expert” analysts I have heard on mainstream TV in the last few weeks commenting on the protests have been former US government or security officials, or people close to the Israeli viewpoint, including former Israeli officials. "