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media disappointment:

Three days in, the protests outside of the convention have been remarkably quiet.

what a shock:
http://www.cjr.org/opinion/turkey_coup_erdogan_press_freedom.php

http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/07/mic-used-text-messaging-during-the-republican-national-convention-to-conquer-reader-fomo/

http://beltmag.com/

http://ben.balter.com/2016/07/21/removing-a-feature-is-a-feature/

https://theintercept.com/2016/07/22/in-cleveland-lonely-protesters-marched-through-an-empty-wasteland/

more about the depression that the media must be experiencing because cleveland didn't explode. the journalists cannot add conflict zone reporting to their resumes. the media probably hoped for a disaster because they don't live in cleveland.

https://theintercept.com/2016/07/22/dnc-official-mulls-fuck-you-emoji-in-response-to-fox-news-freelancer/

ORGANIZERS FOR THE Stand Together Against Trump rally in Cleveland had planned for 5,000 participants. The march, a peaceful demonstration that “America’s fundamental ideals of liberty and equality are greater than Trump’s incessant scapegoating and bullying,” was supposed to close out a week that some had predicted would overshadow the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, which came amid nationwide civil unrest and race riots and exploded in violence.

But there was no mayhem in Cleveland.

a huge enclosure with a tall wall is being used for the philly convention too.

more about cleveland:

Thanks to the ACLU lawsuit, which led to a settlement with the city easing up some of the restrictions on protest, not all rallies this week were confined to a highway in the middle of nowhere. But even those that took place downtown struggled to make a mark, and the drama on the convention floor far outdid that on the streets.
In total, 24 people were arrested in convention-related incidents as of Friday morning, most at a flag burning protest on Wednesday. But while legal observers denounced those arrests, and delays in the processing of arrestees, as “troubling,” the final count was significantly lower than what most expected, with the city having announced ahead of the convention that it was prepared to “handle upwards of 1,000 arrests per day.”

the confrontational protesters who only want to destroy did have their way. if all protests were truly peaceful, then they would be permitted to assemble closer to the convention. but many protesters exist only to cause a riot and wreck property for the attention, and the media wants this too.

The heat didn’t stop a last couple attempts at resistance. On Thursday afternoon, a small group of protesters, including a handful with masks and bandanas over their faces, briefly spilled into the streets, chanting “our streets,” while a couple rival protesters shouted back at them “socialism sucks.”

yeah, both sides left their "mark" and changed the world.

more media or video recorders than so-called protesters. the one genius is showing how the cavs are number one.

https://twitter.com/alicesperi/status/756219951946620928

with everyone video recording everything with their cell phones, nobody is left to protest.

The arguing group circled around one of the downtown areas designated for protest a couple times, swarmed by dozens of reporters and followed closely by even more officers on bikes.
A couple of verbal confrontations ensued, as journalists, protesters, legal observers, and even a handful of police officers recorded every move on dozens of cameras and cell phones.

Then, as quickly had it had erupted, the last short-lived burst of protest ended at a nearby park, where volunteers with the Food Not Bombs group handed out apples and water to exhausted anarchists, Trump-supporters, and reporters alike.

the entertaining circus train moved on to philly.

By Thursday evening, Cleveland’s Public Square, which throughout the week had been home to preachers of all ideologies, anti-war grandmothers, gay bashers, supporters of black and blue lives, open carriers and wall opponents, was filled with children playing in a water fountain and reporters napping on benches next to helmets and flak vests they never had to use.

more media disappointment. the media's desire to have chaos erupt is disgusting.

http://billypenn.com/2016/07/24/the-protesters-guide-to-what-you-can-and-cant-do-during-the-dnc/

Philadelphia is expected to see between 35,000 and 50,000 protesters every day this week, and while Cleveland was relatively tame compared to what was predicted, it’s hard to say how Philly will fare.
The majority of the protests and demonstrations that were approved are for FDR Park in South Philly, which is near the Wells Fargo Center. This is what the city’s deeming a “free speech zone,” though it hasn’t been without controversy. Some groups have felt they’ve been relegated to an area that isn’t really within eyeshot of the Wells Fargo Center.

it wasn't a prediction for cleveland. it was a desire. the media hoped chaos would occur.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-25/china-slaps-ban-on-internet-news-reporting-as-crackdown-tightens

http://digiday.com/publishers/abc-news-facebooks-live-rnc-coverage-nets-11-5-million-views/

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