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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.