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When it comes to protests I've noticed two issues:

1. Protests especially in local cities are not being covered at all.

2. The media focuses almost exclusively on the violent aspect which is just a tiny portion of protest activity and a lot is just opportunities who don't care at all about the protest cause and are taking advantage of the fact that police are distracted to cause destruction and steal from stores.

We have the power to fight back. We can contact the media and first of all for local media use their tip line to say where and when there will be peaceful protests. This will increase the likelihood your local media will cover it which can trickle up to national media.

The second thing is for national media use the feedback option to contact them and demand they accurately cover the protests.

Here are some links to submit feedback to national media:

ABC News: https://support.abc.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360003079511

NBC News: https://www.nbcnews.com/information/nbc-news-info/contact-us-n1232521

CBS News: https://www.cbs.com/showfeedback/

CNN: https://help.cnn.com/us/feedback

For how to write the feedback I'd just say keep it short and speak your mind. Don't worry too much about being perfect, the most important thing is they get lots of feedback from real people.

Here is a sample. Please do NOT copy and paste, it's just a starting point.

I saw your show the other day and I feel that it wasn't representative of what the protests are like. When I was there it was completely peaceful and I've seen lots of videos online on social media showing peaceful protests but your coverage didn't include that, instead it showed video of people who are opportunists who are not involved with protesting causing chaos.

I'm calling on {NEWS STATION REPLACE THIS PART ex: ABC News} to spend a lot more time covering the peaceful protests which represent the vast majority of the protests and show less footage of the violence.