Photo: Richard A. Lipski - Washington PostA picture is worth a thousand words: While at the library last night, I looked over at the periodical rack and saw this image on the front page of the Washington Post.
The photo accompanies a recent Post article entitled, "Lashing Out at the Capitol: Tens of Thousands Protest Obama Initiatives and Government Spending".
Sidenote: I was not aware of this story (the 9/12 DC rally) until I happened to see last week's WaPost print edition yesterday. Seems there is also a bit of a discrepancy between the Post's crowd estimates and those cited by the Daily Mail.
Have we finally seen a shift in the public's attitude towards DC politics and a change from the longstanding feelings of complacency and futility to one of active protest & (non-violent) revolt?
2 comments:
Hmm. Interesting that you missed it David -- it was all over the news blogs, but conspicuously absent from the MSM, as you obviously have noticed.
It is funny, especially for that reason. I do get most of my news from online sources (even many MSM outlets via Google News), blogs, Twitter, and print (largely the FT, Economist).
For that reason, I tend to miss a lot of local "news" and the national scandals that seem to occupy everybody's time these days (see The Financial Philosopher's latest post for more on this).
Occasionally I miss a worthwhile story such as this!
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