Fakectivism is social media activism by small numbers of people that is integrated into the news cycle because it matches the media’s political agenda. Every Tea Party member knows that media coverage of actual protests is unequal. Twenty students, most of them volunteers at an environmental non-profit, protesting Keystone will get media coverage that a thousand Tea Party members protesting ObamaCare won't receive.
The same is true of online protests.
Many of the real life protests covered by the media are fake. For example, unions hire non-union protesters to protest on their behalf, a fact that the media organizations covering the protests rarely point out. (more...)
H/T to Fr. Z
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