Dahlia Lithwick acknowledges how some random guy's handwritten screed is better than anything a pundit could have thought up:
We are the most media-saturated 24-hour-cable-soaked culture in the world, and yet
around the country, on Facebook and at protests, people are holding up cardboard signs, the way protesters in ancient Sumeria might have done when demonstrating against a rise in the price of figs. And why is that? Because they very wisely don’t trust television cameras and microphones to get it right anymore. Because a media constructed around the illusion of false equivalencies, screaming pundits, and manufactured crises fails to capture who we are and what we value.
The Dish 