It seems across the world protests are breaking out or underway as populations air their grievances. In terms of media coverage, worldwide online news coverage mentioning protests began increasing this past June and has been steadily ramping up over the course of the past month.
The timeline below shows online news coverage mentioning "(protest OR protests OR protesting OR protester OR protesters OR protested)" from January 2017 through present.
In contrast, US television news coverage on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News mentioning those terms from July 2009 through present shows that just as online coverage of protests have ramped up, television coverage has largely been at historic lows since late 2017, though from June to August of this year there was an increase.
