Facebook protests

So the saga of Russel Brand and Jonathan Ross making a stupid phone call has gone to Facebook, where Generation Y can now vent their spleen. After the fuss blew up, apparently 35000 people have complained about them to the BBC, although many spurred to do so through radio shows on Talk Radio and other, let us say 'anti-BBC' media. The Daily Mail have harumphed consistently in the way that only the blue-rinse, twin-set and pearls, little-Englanders/Little-Britons can.
But if you go to Facebook now, you will find 66 groups about Russel Brand and Jonathan Ross, the vast majority, supporting the two presenters and many vowing to never watch the BBC again if they are sacked.
A silly thing to vow given the BBC is by far the best broadcasting organisation in the world... if they then rely on Sky or ITV for their televisual entertainment, they will soon be engulfed by the weary dullness of the programmes.
But regardless of one's point of view on the Brand/Ross issue (if you don't know, you can find out more here), and personally I think it's a huge storm in a very tiny insy-winsy teacup, it is interesting to see how the two sides have evolved.
The harumphers have stuck to old media. They are in the newspapers, on the radio, even the TV, saying how crude and boarish Brand/Ross are.
Those who enjoy the Brand/Ross cheeky humour (and all they did this time was go ever so slightly over the edge on being personally offensive to someone... bordering on bullying... but an isolated incident one shouldn't forget!) have taken to New Media, or Social Media or Web 2.0, or call it whatever you want (online stuff) to save their beloved hairy presenters.
So is one form of media better at harumphing? I get the feeling that if 36000 people supported Brand/Ross online, it would not get the same media circus surrounding it as the 35000 who complained to the BBC have earned.
Are we still 'old school'? Some online protests have worked wonders... so why don't all of them?
More to the point... how can anyone be bothered to protest at all? There is pain and suffering happening as we speak in the Congo. U.S. elections looming that will affect us all. The world economies going down the tube (or not...maybe just being squeezed into the mouth of the tube?)... so who cares?
Why am I writing about it?
Ah well... now there's the question. By commenting online on the media used by people to vent their spleen... am I merely adding to the hysteria and being yet one more voice on a subject that doesn't deserve any?
Enough already...