US coverage of HK protests out of proportion, says US media watchdog

A rioter walks down the stairs with a gasoline bomb at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, on Nov 18, 2019. - China Daily/ANN

HONG KONG (ANN): US media have produced biased and uneven coverage of recent global protests, as they have given a disproportionate amount of attention to the anti-government protests in Hong Kong while ignoring the violent nature of the protests, according to a study by an American media watchdog group.

Meanwhile, the American media have almost universally called Hong Kong's violent protests "pro-democracy", while protests in other parts of the world have been referred to as "riots" or "violent protests".