Sorry; didn’t mean to pop your blinders off. Go back to sleep.
“Where this is so important is that news media is really our only cross-national comparative dataset capturing human society at this scale, so what this map reflects is the view of global protests conveyed by the news media over time.... [It] shows how media coverage of protests has increased so massively over the past decade...”
All this shows is what the msm decides to report in a specific category. It tracks the growth of a particular data set. So what.
What am I failing to see?