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Post by Her3tiK on Sept 28, 2011 13:56:38 GMT -5
I'm not sure how this hasn't gotten a thread here, so here it is: For the past two weeks, protesters have been gathered near Wall Street in NYC to protest the bailouts, corruption, unemployment, and all the shit of the past few years that have been going on. Unsurprisingly, mainstream news networks have been slow to acknowledge this at all, unless it's to report on cases of police brutality that seem to be dismissed as deserved by the hippies/lazy unemployed/epithet of the day is. Strangely, even some of the larger "indie" outlets, such as The Young Turks have been slow on the uptake with this. Matt Taibbi, over at Rolling Stone, seems to have summed up why this is, in that it just isn't all that well known. The movement itself, Occupy Wall St., seems to have been set up in large part by Anonymous (I need to re-find the link for that; my computer's been buggy lately), and seems to have managed to draw several hundred people, including fairly well-known speakers such as Cornel West and Immortal Technique (how long until RatM shows up?). Additionally, OWS has gathered support from seemingly unrelated groups, such as the Air Line Pilots Association, and has plans to begin additional protests in Los Angeles and Chicago, though those may be under way already; it's hard to find details on this that aren't from admittedly partisan sources. I'm curious to see how long it takes before this gets any real attention. If the teabaggers and their 50-something people protests can get coverage, this should be all over the news, but it's actually worth mentioning, so it'll never happen I'm sure.
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Post by Keiro on Sept 28, 2011 14:17:07 GMT -5
More like I suspect they're not being covered because they don't WANT to reveal to the rest of the US that this is happening.
It'd explain why it's not being widely covered like it is now except for police brutality. I'd put on my tin foil hat, but... honestly, I would not be surprised at all if the USG (US government. I'll refer to them that way from this point on.) told them to shut up and their mouths shut.
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Post by Bezron on Sept 28, 2011 14:31:18 GMT -5
The one is Chicago is going on, near the Merc and one of the Harris bank locations.
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Post by CtraK on Sept 28, 2011 15:39:35 GMT -5
Occupy Wall Street? Occupations always fail.
Invade Wall Street...
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Post by discoberry on Sept 29, 2011 8:52:48 GMT -5
#occupywallstreet has been banned on twitter
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Post by Her3tiK on Sept 29, 2011 10:42:11 GMT -5
...wow... really? I try to avoid conspiracy theories, but god damn it...
In related news, here's someone from the MSM reporting on OWS. While he's still focusing on the police violence aspect, and fails to mention why the protesters are out in the first place, I give him props for what he has to say on this issue. How bad is it that someone saying this to a news audience is surprising?
And it looks like TYT is finally starting to pay this some attention. Sure took such a "progressive" outlet a while to get a hold of this story.
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Post by brendanrizzo on Sept 29, 2011 12:04:56 GMT -5
That's it. Anyone who says there is liberal bias in the media is delusional. If anything, there is a strong conservative bias in the media, and it only got worse after Bush left office.
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Post by Old Viking on Sept 29, 2011 17:48:33 GMT -5
This is the tactic known as pissing into the wind.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Sept 29, 2011 19:53:27 GMT -5
#occupywallstreet has been banned on twitter No it has not. My friend just used it a couple minutes ago. ADDENDUM: About three more tweets have gone thru with the hashtag #occupywallstreet since I posted.
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Post by Her3tiK on Sept 29, 2011 23:06:59 GMT -5
New update: the NYC protests have finally gotten the attention & support of the city's labor protesters & organizers, you know, the groups who usually protest this kind of thing first. It seems that even they didn't want to tackle this issue in such a manner, and are only doing so now that it's obvious that such a movement can gain traction. Also found a great editorial by Chris Hedges on why everyone should be on the streets. Kinda makes me feel like a lesser person for not being able to partake (or rationalize why I can't partake with half-assed excuses. Whichever).
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Post by gyeonghwa on Sept 30, 2011 15:57:44 GMT -5
Yeah I only hear of this on FB but apparently, some 100 policemen are now joining the protesters.
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Post by lighthorseman on Sept 30, 2011 16:02:10 GMT -5
I'm not sure how this hasn't gotten a thread here, so here it is: For the past two weeks, protesters have been gathered near Wall Street in NYC to protest the bailouts, corruption, unemployment, and all the shit of the past few years that have been going on. Unsurprisingly, mainstream news networks have been slow to acknowledge this at all, unless it's to report on cases of police brutality that seem to be dismissed as deserved by the hippies/lazy unemployed/epithet of the day is. Strangely, even some of the larger "indie" outlets, such as The Young Turks have been slow on the uptake with this. Matt Taibbi, over at Rolling Stone, seems to have summed up why this is, in that it just isn't all that well known. The movement itself, Occupy Wall St., seems to have been set up in large part by Anonymous (I need to re-find the link for that; my computer's been buggy lately), and seems to have managed to draw several hundred people, including fairly well-known speakers such as Cornel West and Immortal Technique (how long until RatM shows up?). Additionally, OWS has gathered support from seemingly unrelated groups, such as the Air Line Pilots Association, and has plans to begin additional protests in Los Angeles and Chicago, though those may be under way already; it's hard to find details on this that aren't from admittedly partisan sources. I'm curious to see how long it takes before this gets any real attention. If the teabaggers and their 50-something people protests can get coverage, this should be all over the news, but it's actually worth mentioning, so it'll never happen I'm sure. I've noticed this sort of thing in the news media before too... while a protest may get some slight, grudging coverage, they will virtually never go into any detail about what the grievances of the protesters actually are.
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Post by ltfred on Sept 30, 2011 20:01:21 GMT -5
I'm not sure how this hasn't gotten a thread here, so here it is: For the past two weeks, protesters have been gathered near Wall Street in NYC to protest the bailouts, corruption, unemployment, and all the shit of the past few years that have been going on. Unsurprisingly, mainstream news networks have been slow to acknowledge this at all, unless it's to report on cases of police brutality that seem to be dismissed as deserved by the hippies/lazy unemployed/epithet of the day is. Strangely, even some of the larger "indie" outlets, such as The Young Turks have been slow on the uptake with this. Matt Taibbi, over at Rolling Stone, seems to have summed up why this is, in that it just isn't all that well known. The movement itself, Occupy Wall St., seems to have been set up in large part by Anonymous (I need to re-find the link for that; my computer's been buggy lately), and seems to have managed to draw several hundred people, including fairly well-known speakers such as Cornel West and Immortal Technique (how long until RatM shows up?). Additionally, OWS has gathered support from seemingly unrelated groups, such as the Air Line Pilots Association, and has plans to begin additional protests in Los Angeles and Chicago, though those may be under way already; it's hard to find details on this that aren't from admittedly partisan sources. I'm curious to see how long it takes before this gets any real attention. If the teabaggers and their 50-something people protests can get coverage, this should be all over the news, but it's actually worth mentioning, so it'll never happen I'm sure. I've noticed this sort of thing in the news media before too... while a protest may get some slight, grudging coverage, they will virtually never go into any detail about what the grievances of the protesters actually are. There's a really interesting scholarly book on the effect of the news media on the anti-war movement. Basically, the media refused to cover the protests unless a) it constantly increased the size of rallies while at the same time b) excluding the most radical (like the American Viet Cong). Otherwise the media would only cover the radicals. Protest managers went so far as to actually demand everyone turn up to protests in suits and ties (which didn't exactly happen).
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Post by largeham on Sept 30, 2011 20:17:12 GMT -5
#occupywallstreet has been banned on twitter No it has not. My friend just used it a couple minutes ago. ADDENDUM: About three more tweets have gone thru with the hashtag #occupywallstreet since I posted. I do vaguely remember reading an article saying how Facebook censored all post relating to Occupy Wall Street, but that seems to have changed.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Sept 30, 2011 23:02:49 GMT -5
Well, I keep seeing tweets and posts on FB about it... so. I dunno. All I know is that it isn't now.
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