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Yep. I got distracted when I was posting, but I have edited the original post to include links to the original NYT article, not least because almost every single comment calls out the NYT coverage as a whole, as well as this article in particular, for being, as one commenter put it, "dyspeptic."

I have wondered at the failure until now of the NYTs to write anything about the over 3000 planned protests for No Kings 3. What I feel now is dismay. What a dyspeptic article!

Like this one from New Jersey:

The author seems to think that millions of people marching to protest an authoritarian regime and supporting the Constitution is not a strong enough message. Five MAGA supporters in a diner somehow speak for America, but 10 million protesting in support of America is troublesome for democrats? Make that make sense.

And this one from California:

I believe the only thing missing from the No Kings rallies is the urgency of the press. The main stream media provided days, even weeks of coverage of the Charlie Kirk murder and the same for the kidnapping of Savanna Guthrie’s mother. But like all the rallies before it, I expect nothing more than a blurb on tonight’s weekend news with a few shots of massive crowds in a handful of big cities. Then, silence. There will be no follow up questions with members of Congress in the coming weeks, no answers demanded from the President about whether or not they support or fear the messages the American people are rallying around. The Vietnam anti-war protests were nightly news. Today’s protests will be lucky if they get 2 minutes in the local news.

And this one from Massachusetts:

Instead of questioning the value of these protests, how about reporting on the incredible number of protests planned, not just in the U.S., but internationally? How about reporting on the wide range of people attending, and the wonderful fact of peaceful behavior despite huge crowds and strong emotions? How about reporting on the fact that despite every effort by Trump et al to dismantle the rights baked into our country's founding and added onto since then, people are out there standing up, speaking up, resisting and fighting for the removal of this madman and his toadies? How about reporting on the resilience of people and our belief in the power of collective protest???

And this one from somewhere in the US?

Very disappointed in the skeptical tone of this article.

When people criticize the Times for being out of touch, this is part of the reason why.

Millions and millions of Americans come out for some of the largest protests in our history.

Talk to Ruth Ben Ghiat about this. Resistance movements take time to build.

Don't try to disparage the event before it has even happened.