The methods you describe haven't worked for any of the other anti-Iraq War protests, number 6, and there were many people who attended some of those. And that may be why people aren't showing as much interest any more.

Although I think there were forces in the media that worked against the protests during the Martin Luther King era (which my mother was involved with when I was a child), I think the media in the US is substantially different today than it was during that previous period.

The US media today is totally controlled and has no independence whatever.