Many media outlets are paying a lot more attention to arrests than to the actual demands of protesters.

US media largely ignored campus protests until encampments (and police clearing of encampments) got going, fitting in with a general pattern, according to a researcher who studies how journalists cover protest movements:
https://theconversation.com/media-coverage-of-campus-protests-tends-to-focus-on-the-spectacle-rather-than-the-substance-229172
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Media coverage of campus protests tends to focus on the spectacle, rather than the substance

Analysis shows news stories on pro-Palestinian demonstrations at US universities spiked when they involved clashes.

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