How did television news cover the storming of the US Capitol this week? The graph in the video above uses data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive to count how many seconds of airtime Jan. 6-7 the onscreen text of BBC News London, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News contained the words sedition, insurrection, coup, mob, protest, riot, treason, violent or Black Lives Matter.
The Storming Of The Capitol On Television News: Was It A "Protest", "Riot" Or "Treason"?
