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Lisa Fazio, Associate Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University

From the ’60s till now, TV news coverage of large-scale university protests doesn’t look so different

A screenshot from ABC's live reporting on the Columbia University pro-Palestinian protest on April 25, 2024, shows the 'campus unrest crackdown.' Vanderbilt Television News Archive, Author provided

While much has changed over the past 50 years, evening television news remains a prominent source of information for Americans.

I am a scholar of psychology and study how people learn information from the world around them. I was struck by how the recent televised segments of college campus protests against Israel’s war in Gaza brought to mind images from other student movements in the United States – particularly the widespread campus protests in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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