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Police in France use tear gas and batons at high school student protests
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Covered by 6 outlets across the spectrum.
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For more than a week, high school students in France have protested over education policy and austerity. Police have used tear gas and batons, and Truthout reports more than 200 students injured. The interior ministry says the police watchdog IGPN has opened 24 investigations into incidents linked to the protests. A 14-year-old, Eden, suffered a broken jaw after being hit by a tear gas canister, his family and lawyer say; prosecutors say an officer told them he acted to protect himself. Trump has blamed the protests on mass migration. Fox News reports that a network funded by Neville Roy Singham is amplifying them.
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What happened
Key points
Each point shows who reports it, from Far Left to Far Right.
High school students in France have protested for over a week over education policy, which protesters say the state has neglected.
Reported byFar Left1Far Right1See the outletsHide the outlets
- Far Left
- Jacobin
- Far Right
- Fox News
Police have used tear gas and batons against protesters.
Reported byFar Left2Center1See the outletsHide the outlets
- Far Left
- Jacobin, Truthout
- Center
- France 24
Truthout reports that more than 200 students have been injured.
One outletTruthout· Far Left
The interior ministry said the police watchdog IGPN has opened 24 investigations into incidents linked to the protests.
One outletFrance 24· Center
A 14-year-old's family and lawyer say he suffered a broken jaw after being hit by a tear gas canister, and they have filed a complaint for attempted murder.
One outletFrance 24· Center
Trump has attributed the protests to mass migration and to Islam.
Reported byFar Left1Center1See the outletsHide the outlets
- Far Left
- Truthout
- Center
- Newsweek
What is contested
Where accounts differ
Points the coverage does not agree on, and who says what.
Police used excessive or unnecessary force against students.
Jacobin, Truthout, The Nation and the Washington Times report that critics, rights campaigners and others allege excessive or unnecessary violence; France 24 reports that rights groups and UN experts have long denounced the weapons used. The interior ministry has opened 24 investigations, and according to the prosecutor an officer said he acted to protect himself.
What is driving the protests.
Jacobin and Fox News describe students protesting over education policy and the state's neglect of schools. Trump has blamed the protests on mass migration and, according to Newsweek's opinion piece, on Islam. Fox News says an investigation found a network of communist and socialist groups is seizing on the protests.
A foreign-funded network is amplifying the protests.
Fox News says a network funded by Neville Roy Singham is amplifying the protests to advance a wider political agenda. None of the other supplied articles reports this claim.
How each side tells it
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the left
3 outlets
All three left-side outlets are rated Far Left and put police violence against students first, with Jacobin's “In France, High Schoolers are Beaten, Choked, and Gassed” and Truthout's “As French Police Teargas Students” the most graphic, while The Nation's “Has France’s Government Overplayed Its Hand?” asks a question aimed at the government.
Has France’s Government Loaded verb“Overplayed Its Hand”The idiom implies a strategic miscalculation by the government rather than describing its response.More neutral: How has the government responded to the student protests?Disagree with this highlight??
The NationFar LeftAll left-leaning headlines the center
1 outlet · 1 opinion
France 24's headline reports serious injuries and says they draw scrutiny to police tactics, while the Newsweek opinion piece's headline calls Trump's claim about Islam outrageous and points to videos of students invoking terrorists.
Severe injuries at French student protests draw scrutiny to police tactics
France 24CenterAll center headlines the right
2 outlets
The Washington Times frames the story around gruesome injuries and allegations of excessive police force, while Fox News, rated Far Right, frames it as student riots driven by communist and propaganda networks, and Fox's word riots mirrors Jacobin's vivid “Beaten, Choked, and Gassed” framing on the left.
Behind France's Sensational language“student riots”Riots describes the protests as violent disorder, which the supplied text does not establish, and other coverage of the story calls them protests.More neutral: student protestsDisagree with this highlight?: Communists, unions and a global Delegitimizing label“propaganda network”Propaganda asserts a deliberate intent to deceive, which the article's own evidence does not establish.More neutral: media and advocacy networkDisagree with this highlight?
Fox NewsFar RightAll right-leaning headlines
The words they chose
Language to notice
Words that carry a judgement beyond the facts. Tap a highlighted word anywhere on the page to see why.
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campaign of repressionBeaten, Choked, and Gassedsmearspurious claims
Center5
outrageousscreamingabsurdSchool Riots
Right8
Gruesome injuriespro-communist networkstormedseizing on
In the outlets’ own words
Sensational language
Gruesome injuriesMore neutral: Reported injuries
Gruesome is a judgement about the injuries that the headline states as fact before the details are established.
Gruesome injuries throw spotlight on France's policing of high school protests
Used byThe Washington Times (Right)
Loaded modifier
campaign of repressionMore neutral: police response
Repression is a judgement about the government’s intent and actions that the excerpt presents without attribution.
France’s government has launched an unprecedented campaign of repression against high schoolers after a surprise protest movement kicked off in…
Used byJacobin (Far Left)
Loaded verb
Beaten, Choked, and GassedMore neutral: Students report police beatings, choking and teargas at protests
The headline states allegations of police beatings, choking and gassing as established fact.
In France, High Schoolers are Beaten, Choked, and Gassed
Used byJacobin (Far Left)
Loaded verb
smearMore neutral: criticize
Smear characterizes Trump’s posts as malicious rather than describing what he said.
On Tuesday, Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, to smear the student mobilizations spreading across France as caused by “out of control mass…
Used byTruthout (Far Left)
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Loaded modifier
spurious claimsMore neutral: unsupported claims
Spurious labels the claims as false before the excerpt gives evidence.
…to take over.” Other right-wing politicians and commentators echoed these spurious claims.
Used byTruthout (Far Left)
Sensational language
brutally honestMore neutral: frank
Brutally adds a judgement about the minister’s remark that the excerpt does not establish.
This time at least, Nuñez was being brutally honest.
Used byThe Nation (Far Left)
Loaded verb
Overplayed Its HandMore neutral: How has the government responded to the student protests?
The idiom implies a strategic miscalculation by the government rather than describing its response.
Has France’s Government Overplayed Its Hand?
Used byThe Nation (Far Left)
Loaded modifier
outrageousMore neutral: unsupported
Outrageous is the columnist’s judgement of the claim rather than a description of it.
Trump's claim about France was outrageous.
Used byNewsweek (Center)
Loaded verb
screamingMore neutral: saying
Screaming characterizes the manner of the president’s remark beyond what the reported words show.
…conventional explanations for what was happening, while our own president was screaming "ISLAM!" His accusation was inflammatory, provocative, reductive and, we thought,…
Used byNewsweek (Center)
Loaded modifier
absurdMore neutral: unsupported
Absurd is the columnist’s judgement of the claim, stated in its own voice.
…"ISLAM!" His accusation was inflammatory, provocative, reductive and, we thought, absurd.
Used byNewsweek (Center)
Sensational language
School RiotsMore neutral: school protests
Riots is a stronger label than the protests most outlets describe.
Trump Blamed Islam for France’s School Riots.
Used byNewsweek (Center)
Sensational language
Shocking VideosMore neutral: Videos
Shocking is a judgement about the videos that the headline asserts before describing them.
The Shocking Videos Show Why
Used byNewsweek (Center)
Delegitimizing label
pro-communist networkMore neutral: transnational network of left-wing groups
Defines the network by a political ideology as its whole identity, and the funding link it draws is presented as established without supporting evidence in the supplied text.
A transnational pro-communist network funded by Neville Roy Singham is amplifying French student protests, seeking…
Used byFox News (Far Right)
Loaded verb
stormedMore neutral: entered
Stormed implies violent entry, while the event described is young adults entering a square.
When young adults stormed France's Bastille Thursday, a little-known media outlet called BreakThrough News sent…
Used byFox News (Far Right)
Loaded verb
seizing onMore neutral: using
Suggests the groups are exploiting the protests, a motive the article asserts rather than shows.
…that a transnational network of far-left communist and socialist organizations is seizing on France’s fiery student protests to advance a wider political and ideological agenda,…
Used byFox News (Far Right)
Sensational language
fieryMore neutral: student
Adds dramatic emphasis to the protests without adding factual information.
…network of far-left communist and socialist organizations is seizing on France’s fiery student protests to advance a wider political and ideological agenda, using tactics…
Used byFox News (Far Right)
Sensational language
image of chaosMore neutral: a particular picture of the protests
Characterizes the network's purpose as producing chaos, a judgement about intent not established by the supplied text.
…States over the past decade to amplify unrest, deepen divisions and project an image of chaos.
Used byFox News (Far Right)
Sensational language
student riotsMore neutral: student protests
Riots describes the protests as violent disorder, which the supplied text does not establish, and other coverage of the story calls them protests.
Behind France's student riots: Communists, unions and a global propaganda network
Used byFox News (Far Right)
Delegitimizing label
propaganda networkMore neutral: media and advocacy network
Propaganda asserts a deliberate intent to deceive, which the article's own evidence does not establish.
Behind France's student riots: Communists, unions and a global propaganda network
Used byFox News (Far Right)
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Side by side
What each side leads with and what it leaves out. Open a side to read its headlines.
From the left
3 outletsLeads with
- police violence against students
- number of students injured
- government failure on education
- Trump's blame of mass migration
Leaves out
- the interior ministry's 24 investigations into police incidents
- the officer's account that he acted to protect himself
Reported by other sides, not found in this side’s coverage.
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- The NationFar Left
Has France’s Government Loaded verb“Overplayed Its Hand”The idiom implies a strategic miscalculation by the government rather than describing its response.More neutral: How has the government responded to the student protests?Disagree with this highlight??
June Loper, Harrison Stetler The speed and scale of the police response is unprecedented.
- TruthoutFar Left
As French Police Teargas Students, Trump Blames Protests on “Mass Migration”
Over 200 students have been injured as police fired teargas and used batons against the youth protestors.
- JacobinFar Left
In France, High Schoolers are Loaded verb“Beaten, Choked, and Gassed”The headline states allegations of police beatings, choking and gassing as established fact.More neutral: Students report police beatings, choking and teargas at protestsDisagree with this highlight?
For over a week, high school students and teachers in France have been protesting the state’s abandonment of the education system. The government response: send in police to subdue them.
From the center
1 outlet · 1 opinionLeads with
- the 14-year-old's injury and family complaint
- 24 police watchdog investigations
- calls to scrap rubber bullets and launcher weapons
- Trump's claim about Islam
Leaves out
- students' stated grievances over education and austerity
- the claim that a funded network is amplifying the protests
Reported by other sides, not found in this side’s coverage.
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- France 24Center
Severe injuries at French student protests draw scrutiny to police tactics
Twenty-four investigations have been opened by French police watchdog IGPN into incidents linked to the ongoing high school protest movement, the interior ministry said. …
Trump Blamed Islam for France’s Sensational language“School Riots”Riots is a stronger label than the protests most outlets describe.More neutral: school protestsDisagree with this highlight?. The Sensational language“Shocking Videos”Shocking is a judgement about the videos that the headline asserts before describing them.More neutral: VideosDisagree with this highlight? Show Why
Trump's claim about France was Loaded modifier“outrageous”Outrageous is the columnist’s judgement of the claim rather than a description of it.More neutral: unsupportedDisagree with this highlight?. But videos of students invoking terrorists raise questions the media can't ignore.
From the right
2 outletsLeads with
- injuries and policing tactics
- critics' and rights campaigners' allegations
- communist and union networks behind the protests
- a foreign-funded network amplifying unrest
Leaves out
- the interior ministry's 24 police investigations
- the injured 14-year-old's case
- the reported figure of more than 200 students injured
Reported by other sides, not found in this side’s coverage.
See the 2 headlines from the rightHide the headlines
- Fox NewsFar Right
Behind France's Sensational language“student riots”Riots describes the protests as violent disorder, which the supplied text does not establish, and other coverage of the story calls them protests.More neutral: student protestsDisagree with this highlight?: Communists, unions and a global Delegitimizing label“propaganda network”Propaganda asserts a deliberate intent to deceive, which the article's own evidence does not establish.More neutral: media and advocacy networkDisagree with this highlight?
A transnational Delegitimizing label“pro-communist network”Defines the network by a political ideology as its whole identity, and the funding link it draws is presented as established without supporting evidence in the supplied text.More neutral: transnational network of left-wing groupsDisagree with this highlight? funded by Neville Roy Singham is amplifying French student protests, seeking better schools.
- The Washington TimesRight
Sensational language“Gruesome injuries”Gruesome is a judgement about the injuries that the headline states as fact before the details are established.More neutral: Reported injuriesDisagree with this highlight? throw spotlight on France's policing of high school protests
Beyond physical wounds, the massive use of police arrests and tactics that government critics and human rights campaigners allege have been unnecessarily violent is giving a generation of French schoolchildren - and soon-to-be voters - a real-life education about state power and …
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Who reported it when
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Left
2 hr 48 min later
Its first report, Oct 8, 10:09 AM EDT
Center
1 day 22 hr later
Its first report, Oct 10, 6:20 AM EDT
Right
First to report
The Washington Times, Oct 8, 7:22 AM EDT
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- The Washington TimesRightOct 8, 7:22 AM EDT
- JacobinFar LeftOct 8, 10:09 AM EDT
- TruthoutFar LeftOct 8, 12:18 PM EDT
- The NationFar LeftOct 8, 2:57 PM EDT
- Fox NewsFar RightOct 9, 8:14 AM EDT
- France 24CenterOct 10, 6:20 AM EDT
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