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Is the main stream media paying enough attention to the Wall Street Protests?
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2011 Oct 3, 5:21am 2,537 views 7 comments
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Vicente
2011 Oct 3, 5:30am
It's an interesting effort.
If there were a giant park right in front of the NYSE and there were hundreds of thousands there would be results.
A smaller number camping out in a park blocks away however...... it's just not "in your face" enough.
What about Fox? They're so gung-ho for the "people's Power" tea Party, but where are they on reporting on the Protest?
zzyzzx
2011 Oct 3, 5:56am
It's not just that they are still relatively small in number, it's also the fact that I don't think anyobody is completely sure exactly what they are supposedly standing for.
That and Micheal Moore is supposedly showing up at these things, and that's known to turn people off to things.
Huntington Moneyworth III, Esq
2011 Oct 3, 7:28am
I've been watching a repeating loop of the white shirted police officer running up and spraying those filthy street women with pepper disinfectant spray. I haven't laughed so hard in ages.
CL
2011 Oct 3, 7:47am
I marched in NY right before we invaded Iraq; there were a million people protesting, and we had the largest religious denominations opposing it. When I flipped on NY1 later that evening, they gave equal time to a pro-war group which numbered about 10 inbred fools with face and body paint.
They marginalized it then went to war anyway. And it's stuff like that that makes me wonder why the Right thinks that the Left has been effective at getting any of their goals realized. Do they not realize that they are winning, and always win--at least in our lifetimes?
terriDeaner
2011 Oct 3, 2:23pm
If there were a giant park right in front of the NYSE and there were hundreds of thousands there would be results.
A smaller number camping out in a park blocks away however...... it's just not "in your face" enough.
Good point - Wall Street is actually pretty small. I'm curious to see how many folks accumulate at the satellite protest sites.
Patrick posted a couple of links to news on the growing anti-bank, anti-corporate Wall Street protests in today's news. I find this movement interesting because, for a change, it is a focused effort to target populist anger at the institutions that are actively wrecking our economy. That said, there hasn't been much coverage of these protests in the MSM relative to, say historic Tea Party protests, or even the Republican presidential debates.
So is this because the movement is too new? Is it because it is actually not very big or interesting to regular folks? Or is the MSM ignoring these protests because they are part of the corporate problem?
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