Celebrities received far more media attention in the US than the activists they brought to the Golden Globes
Of the eight actresses that brought activists as dates to the Golden Globes, all but one was written about far more frequently in news stories than their dates. Tarana Burke is the original founder of the Me Too movement.
Source: Media Cloud data, using the “U.S. Top Online News” collection, which includes the top 50 online news sources according to Pew Research Center and Comscore in 2015.
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