More people show up when a celebrity is sighted in Manhattan than to these demonstrations, so it's no surprise that people pay little to no attention to them. Protests are a perfectly acceptable form of political expression, and I seem to remember tens of thousands of people coming out to protest the Iraq War before it even started. Those people made their voice heard and helped to sustain an opposition to the war.

By contrast, this demonstration is pathetic and sad. It attracted a few dozen people who ran the gamut from crazy to antisocial and it had no agenda. As such, it was a complete failure because it had no message and virtually no attendance. All these people were doing was blocking pedestrian traffic.

There is no reason why that should gain any sustained national media attention, any more than the about 100 people who were at a private movie showing I went to were worthy of media attention because they were waiting to see Jude Law.

The "relevant article" is the very definition of stupid. It says "a protest is newsworthy even if it's poorly attended, inarticulate and unpopular." That is patently not true.