Its not exactly the purest case of straw man because they are mixing in a genetic fallacy. Also the degree of the misrepresentation of who the protesters are seems too strong to consider an error in logic, but seems more like malicious lying. A moral failure rather than a logical one.
Mainstream Media Journalist - (n) One of that rare societal class of human being, who earns money and praise for acts of public defecation, both figurative and literal.