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The independent media watchdog Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) found that US corporate media disproportionately focuses on the Hong Kong protests with a single-minded narrative, while ignoring far more violent unrests around the world. They stated that this disparity in US media coverage could not be explained by differences in other protests' size, significance, or severity of the repression meted out by security services. For instance, FAIR underscored the high death tolls and radical actions taken in other protests, and contrasted it to the Hong Kong protests where "no one has died at the hands of the Hong Kong security forces, although one protester died after falling from a building, and a 70-year-old man was killed by a brick thrown by protesters." Furthermore, FAIR found that US media coverage routinely glosses over unseemly details about the protests and rarely uses negative language to describe Hong Kong protesters who commit acts of violence against people, which is contrasted by the coverage about other demonstrations where violent acts by protesters are more readily reported in unfavourable terms.

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 * Hong Kong police have classified the death of a 70-year-old man hit in the head by a brick at a clash between protesters and a group trying to clear a roadblock as murder, officials told a police briefing on Friday (Nov 15).
 * Senior Superintendent Chan Tin Chu said at the briefing that he believes the attack was malicious, broadcaster RTHK quoted him as saying. --> check also SCMP sources
 * The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department released a statement on Friday saying it was saddened by the incident and will "provide all appropriate support and assistance to them (the man's family) as far as practicable".
 * Expressing outrage over the malicious acts, the Hong Kong government said that the police will make every effort to investigate the case to bring the offenders to justice.

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