How did global TV news channels cover the convoy protest in Canada?

I examined the total airtime of news coverage of the truckers protest in Ottawa by 10 news channels: (BLOOMBERG, CNBC,CNN, FOXNEWS, MSNBC, ALJAZEERA, BBCNEWS, DW, RT, and CBS), and I used Google’s GDELT for this inquiry.

To search these channels, I used the following terms: “convoy protest”, “truckers protest”, “truckers convoy”, “trucker protest”, “freedom convoy”, “trucker protest” and by specifying the following dates during which the event was mentioned: 1/13/2022 until 4/12/2022.

Theoretically, the more attention given to a topic, the more important it is for the news organization.

The second point is the framing of the protest that is often described in relation to freedom of expression and/or movement. For example, I  analyzed the terms that RT mostly used in describing the movement and it is actually the phrase “freedom convoy” (mentioned 1032 times) and it got the highest airtime coverage, too (see the visualization below).

Other common phrases associated with the news coverage include “peaceful demonstration” and “peaceful protestors”, indicating the channel’s preference in framing the protestors.

The link below shows another visualization of RT’s news coverage.

Finally, it is interesting to see in this link  the type of sources and people RT decided to interview to cover the convoy protest.