Newsweek has a new piece wondering why it is that the United States doesn't seem to muster protest movements like we're seeing in Europe and in a number of Arab countries.

The headline and image on their website:

If you read that caption you see that protest happened on March 12* May 12-- one of several mass mobilizations that have attracted almost no corporate media attention--a subject we discussed on CounterSpin last week with journalist Allison Kilkenny, who's been covering them for a variety of independent outlets.

Yes, there could certainly be a sensible discussion about why the political system in the United States discourages citizen activism. But there's something strange about using an image from a rather sizable demonstration in New York City to accompany a story about why there are so few sizable demonstrations in this country.

*Date corrected-- the Newsweek caption had it wrong, and I repeated their error.

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