Social Movements have a love-hate relationship with the media. I would even go as far as to call it an abusive relationship because the media always gets what it wants while the movements usually fizzle away. The only social movement in recent memory that was moderately successful was the Marriage Equality Movement. But just because they were successful with getting marriage equality passed into law they faced backlash from conservative news outlets over the “redefining marriage” and especially after the Kim Davis incident arguing that same sex marriage violated her (and their) first amendment rights of religious freedoms. The constant theme I’ve noticed with regards to Social Movements and the media is at first they are sympathetic but
