That wasn't the case even four or five years ago. It's a wake-up call to traditional media sources to keep working at integrating online news into how they provide news generally.
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It can give a movement like this legs that it wouldn't have had 10 years ago. Today, protest is decentralized. You don't have to get 100,000 people marching on Washington. But you can get 10,000 people in 10 different cities rather quickly.
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