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Surely if the mainstream media chose to narrativise a series of international anti-austerity protests as an important part of a wider anti-establishment movement then people would be more likely to take it seriously
What, like Occupy and 15-M?
Pretty sure the media was all over those. One fizzled out, the other produced Podemos which has seats in parliament.
How does the 16 April demo compare to either?
h2o
Doesn't this reading of what is "newsworthy" ignore that the news not only reports on events but informs public perceptions of them.
Surely if the mainstream media chose to narrativise a series of international anti-austerity protests as an important part of a wider anti-establishment movement then people would be more likely to take it seriously. It's a bit circular to say that a protest isn't newsworthy because it didn't achieve anything.