Lithwick on OWS and the Media
Here’s a really good piece by Dahlia Lithwick on how the mainstream media (in particular, whining-head political pundits) have rendered themselves irrelevant by willfully misconstruing the message of Occupy Wall Street: How OWS confuses and ignores Fox News and the pundit class.
October 29th, 2011 at 9:30 am
Comparison to Tea Party in 3, 2, …
October 31st, 2011 at 4:34 am
So let me get this straight, the park people are pretty proud of themselves because they don’t know what they want, don’t know how to get it, and don’t know what to do with it once they get it. The biggest accomplishment they seem to have mustered so far is to by golly, don’t tell Fox News (or CNN, loved that sleight of hand) what we don’t know/how/what to do with it. That and showing up at the same place at the same time, but they used Twitter to do it, gasp! It’s a revolution!!
October 31st, 2011 at 8:40 am
shcb get something straight? That’s oxymoronic.
OWS has been tremendously successful already in turning National attention towards issues that matter to the people. (Something the tea party failed to accomplish. – that was for you Smith ;-)
“This sea-change can’t be attributed only to the Occupy movement – it also correlates with the White House’s “pivot” toward jobs and the economy – but there is no doubt that Occupy Wall Street has played a major role in bringing attention to the plight of working America. Even House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Virginia, acknowledged the occupiers’ grievances when his office announced that he would be giving an address “about income disparity and how Republicans believe the government could help fix it.” One would be naïve to believe Cantor would ever support such measures, but it nonetheless marked a dramatic departure from the GOP’s usual class-war stance. (Cantor later canceled the speech when he learned he would be greeted by protesters.)
The real-world impact of this shift is difficult to predict, but the problems on which our mainstream discourse focuses are the ones most likely to be addressed.
http://october2011.org/blogs/kevin-zeese/occupy-movement-has-changed-debate
October 31st, 2011 at 10:17 am
Hmm, now I’m really confused, they are proud the corporate media is paying attention to them? I thought they didn’t care about the corporate media, loathed it in fact.
October 31st, 2011 at 10:42 am
It never ceases to amaze me how wwnjs consume massive amounts of nonsense then sneer when others point this out. OWS is global in a way that the teabaggers never will be. I though the teabaggers were all upset about the gubbermint, big money in politics and the like. Maybe not so much. Seems like they were just a front for the Koch brothers/Dick Armey (which is where big chinks of their astroturf funding came from). Or maybe they were upset about something else. Like that WetStart and Caribou Barbie lost. Badly. To a black man.
A crowd in Tahrir Square marched in support of OWS. Sneer at twitter all you like grandpa. I’m sure Moomar Gadafi thought twitter wasn’t a threat. Facebook? Mobile phones? Kids these days. There are hundreds of OWS type protests going on world-wide. Take that teabaggers! hah!
This Thursday I have a meeting with some VC guys an hour south of me. I’ll wear the same suit I got married in, same shirt, same tie. On the way home I’m going to stop by our local OWS and hand out a couple tents (maybe some cash rolled up inside with a note to keep it nonviolent, but keep it going!), some spare blankets, some water and a case of canned chili.
I have a sign made up. On one side it says “We’re all Scott Olsen now”. I am taking suggestions as to what to put on the other side. Please suggest. yes yes wwnj ‘get a job ya filthy hippy!’ isn’t going to make the grade (your grade: D-)
That last graph in knarly’s link says it all.
October 31st, 2011 at 11:02 am
Good stuff Enk. For the sign, how about something along these lines: “WARNING Enforcing city bylaws with clubs & tear gas is evil”
shcb thinks “Proud”? LOL – shcb grasps ideas like a baby eats steaks. shcb, here’s a hint: the count of “jobs” and other key words can be sampled as a rough measure of the content of national / international discourse.
October 31st, 2011 at 3:14 pm
“Comparison to Tea Party in 3, 2, …”
“pretty proud of themselves because they don’t know what they want, don’t know how to get it, and don’t know what to do with it once they get it.”
“Hmm, now I’m really confused, they are proud the corporate media is paying attention to them? I thought they didn’t care about the corporate media, loathed it in fact.”
Substitute “Liberal” for “corporate” and I’d say I pretty much nailed this one.
October 31st, 2011 at 5:21 pm
It was a pretty safe bet Smith, but you did nail it. I just find it funny how many times I’ve said I’m not a fan of the Tea Party but it fits you bias so I guess I am, in your minds anyway.
I pretty much agree with Frum on this one.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/31/opinion/frum-republican-tea-party-scenarios/index.html?eref=rss_latest&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_latest+%28RSS%3A+Most+Recent%29
October 31st, 2011 at 5:27 pm
Please point to the part of either of those comments in which I described you as a fan of the Tea Party.
You can’t, but it fits you bias so I guess I said it, in your mind anyway.
October 31st, 2011 at 7:12 pm
I didn’t mean you Smith, I meant the other two, I should have been more clear. The first sentence was to you the rest to the others, poorly written on my part.