Hear, hear!
I was about to write something similar, but you have done it much better.
Farmers protests in Europe, or any protests really, are such a fraught and complicated phenomenon that any journalist shouldn’t touch them without giving loads of context. Context such as the instrumentalisation by the far right or the history of and rationale behind farming subsidies.
Now, Boing Boing famously isn’t journalism, it’s a blog, so I’m not #disappointed in them, but it wouldn’t hurt to add a few links to more nuanced takes
