If Seven Million People Protest And No One Hears About It, Did It Actually Happen? -- Digby

[erronis]

https://digbysblog.net/2025/10/19/if-seven-million-people-protest-and-no-one-else-hears-about-it-did-it-actually-happen/

James Fallows noted a slight difference between that front page and this one:



More than 100,000 people showed up yesterday in New York City alone. They estimate 7 million around the country. The first gets the big A1 front page story. The second has a picture below the fold and a story on page A23.

This is a huge problem.

I highly recommend this piece by Chris Hayes in the same NY Times (gift link) that discusses how much the attention asymmetry is killing us. It’s a media problem, for sure. They are draw like flies to honey to all the provocations of the right and simply aren’t that interested in the earnest dissent from the left. Unless they commit violence or do something illegal they fail to see it as particularly newsworthy. The old “if it bleeds it leads” journalistic trope is very true. But it’s also a liberal/progressive problem.

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[Groundhawg]

1. Protests are useless.

[Buzz cook]

6. Not Useless at all.

They provide people with a common cause a gathering place.
They positively enforce action over inaction.
They display to the people in the area and driving by that they are not alone.

Even if the corporate media a don't cover the protests, they are all over social media. and that does more than a front page article in the NYT.

Go to a protest, wave a sign, and meet some new friends.

[Groundhawg]

7. I would never discourage protests, but they are useless.

[spooky3]

2. I was a long time NYT subscriber but finally had enough and canceled

Recently. It makes me sad because I want to support good journalism.

[erronis]

4. There are still some good journalists inside but the headlines are what count.

[sop]

3. We can't expect corporate media to accurately report news events that negatively impact their ownership's interests.

[erronis]

5. I have friends and relatives that still subscribe and send me clippings.

I wish they would stop.

Stop subscribing just for the crosswords, cooking stuff, etc.

Find other better sources.