So, after years of stirring up outrage, while providing limited information and zero solutions, we get journalists saying ‘We are fire alarm; not the fuel’.

Horseshit. You are absolutely a part of the problem, if not a major contributing factor to it.

I don't think the article is a defence of the media or journalists. The only mentions of media and journalists are critical of them.

Remeikis, it seems to me, is defending protesters and dissent movements.

In the minutes after the news broke of the alleged (someone has now been charged, and so language must change with it) attack, blame was ascribed by commentators, and later the broader political class, to people who had protested a genocide, those who wanted more climate action, and the Left in general.

We’ve normalised police bashing peaceful protesters.

We are a nation who will tone police people protesting racism, but not the racists.

A group of protesters sitting outside an MP’s office, demanding higher standards of their leaders, is not the same as death threats and violence. But in criticising the legitimate threats, the political and media classes will point to democratic dissent as an example.