By my count, there’ve been
1011 arrests so far — and I’ve just been watching the live stream. photo via.
Breaking News is confirming this.
I think it’s a tactic and a valid tactic to call attention to a problem. Wall Street is out of control. We have three imbalances in this country—the imbalance between imports and exports, the imbalance between employer power and working power, and the imbalance between the real economy and the financial economy. We need to bring back balance to the financial economy, and calling attention to it and peacefully protesting is a very legitimate way of doing it.AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka • Talking on C-SPAN Friday about mass protests in general and Occupy Wall Street in particular. Trumka’s endorsement of the protests shadows the growing support the movement is getting from such labor unions as the Transport Workers Union. If the movement grows among labor unions, that will help swell the growth of the movement significantly. source (via • follow)
First story on The Last Word w/ Lawrence O’Donnell tonight: the Occupy Wall Street protests. Not just a brief mention, either: the first 15 minutes were dedicated to talking in depth about how Wall Street’s greed has led to the protests we’re seeing day after day, including an interview with Michael Moore. O’Donnell says he will also address police brutality at the end of the program. Great example of the growing media coverage on Occupy Wall Street.
Good to see.
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Dr. Cornel West at the Occupy Wall Street protest Tuesday evening. [Photo: @linktothepast86]
Hey, it’s that guy from “The Matrix Reloaded.”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls7q0f1Kiv1qzr73ro1_500.jpg)
Dr. Cornel West at the Occupy Wall Street protest Tuesday evening. [Photo: @linktothepast86]
Hey, it’s that guy from “The Matrix Reloaded.”
Spotted at Occupy Wall Street today: Susan Sarandon. No word on when Barry Bostwick will show up. Does that mean NPR will finally cover this? (EDIT: Yes, they will.)
andurrs says: Funny. I would have thought good journalists could find their hook. Silly me.
» SFB says: That’s not our point at all. Journalists can find a good hook to create an individual story. But a story like this needs more than that. This is an attempt to create a large-scale movement. The standards are higher. To outsiders looking at this passively, this story doesn’t have any clear objective other than creating a dialogue about populist anger around Wall Street. Which is necessary, but not necessarily a “hook.” Think of every notable populist movement in the past couple of years: The Tea Party had Rick Santelli making an audacious speech on a trading floor. The Arab Spring had a Tunisian who set himself on fire out of anger. Egypt had Wael Ghonim and massive crowds at Tahrir Square that stuck around for weeks. And so on. Occupy Wall Street does not need a hook like this to get coverage (and media outlets should cover it whether or not it has a “hook” — something they might actually find in the process of covering it, by the way). But it’d be a stronger movement if it had something like this to coalesce around. — Ernie @ SFB
Why NPR won’t give air time to the Occupy Wall Street protests in lower Manhattan.
No crowds, celebrities, mayhem or clear demands? No coverage.
From the NPR ombudsman’s blog:
NPR hasn’t aired a story on the “Occupy Wall Street” protest — now entering its second week — but several of you aired your concerns about the lack of coverage, and Ralph Nader called to say NPR is ignoring the left.. We asked the newsroom to explain their editorial decision. Executive editor for news Dick Meyer came back: “The recent protests on Wall Street did not involve large numbers of people, prominent people, a great disruption or an especially clear objective.”
Here we have an answer about priorities at NPR that people can argue with. That’s good. That’s transparency.
Prominent people, huh? As opposed to young people giving up their lives to sleep outside in rain, filth and noise and perhaps get maced to make a political statement about accountability on Wall Street…
Disruption? And that differs from an invitation to mayhem how… exactly?
Dick Meyer’s statement should be a widget. Meaning: NPR should keep a rolling list of candidate-for-coverage stories that it is not covering with an explanation for why it is not covering them, and then place it around npr.org as a sidebar.
We made a point about this yesterday, that Occupy Wall Street doesn’t have a “hook” at the moment that easily sells its appeal to a larger audience. But there’s a difference between not having a “hook” and ignoring it entirely. We like the transparency, too, but we think NPR’s missing the boat.
So even as the members of Occupy Wall Street seem unorganized and, at times, uninformed, their continued presence creates a vexing problem for the Police Department.New York Times writer Joseph Goldstein • In an article about the NYPD’s seemingly poor handling of Occupy Wall Street. The article as a whole makes intelligent and understandable points (and goes in-depth about the use of pepper spray on Saturday), but this particular line really bothered us. This comes off as The New York Times ripping the dirty hippies for being dirty hippies, which is just an approach they should not take here. It’s condescending and shows a lack of respect for the protesters. What if they just dropped a line like that into an article about the Tea Party? It’d get savaged by the blogs! Instead of just interviewing your sources at the NYPD, Mr. Goldstein, why don’t you interview the protesters (who, we don’t know if you’ve noticed, have been clamoring for media attention), instead of discretely calling them idiots? You did it before, with this article. This piece feels like you’re writing an article about one side of the story. source (via • follow)
Not very often at all, according to the New York Times. In the weekend’s most unbelievable video, a number of young women were pepper sprayed after reacting towards another man’s arrest, seemingly arbitrarily. “A cop in a white shirt — I think he’s a superior officer — just comes along and does these quick little spritzes of pepper spray in my and these three other girls’ eyes,” said Chelsea Elliott, one of the four women sprayed. It’s not a common occurrence for the NYPD to use it. While it got used during a 2003 antiwar protest, it didn’t get used in a much-larger 2004 protest that accompanied the Republican National Convention. “We don’t use it indiscriminately like other cities do,” notes former deputy chief Thomas Graham. So why was it needed for this protest? source
beautyofapple says: And still we hear nothing on main stream media. (Edit: After this post, they corrected.)
» SFB says: Here are 900 news articles from the past 24 hours, from news sources as diverse and mainstream as The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post and ABC News. Enjoy. (Note: This is not to say the media isn’t underplaying it, but let’s get our facts straight, friends.) — Ernie @ SFB
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Lots of media - guys w expensive cameras and women in suits with notebooks - at #occupywallstreet (Taken with instagram)
Reblogging with emphasis.
Front page, New York Daily News, Sunday 25 September 2011.
(via the Newseum)
Although the headline’s a little tasteless, it’s certainly less tasteless than the New York Post’s cover, which doesn’t even cover Occupy Wall Street, but instead gives Sly Stone a bit of a blindsiding headline.
- Clyde Haberman, the New York Times, haberman@nytimes.com
- Michael Daly, the New York Daily News
- The Investigators, WABC TV (Channel 7), the.investigators@abc.com
- Jonathan Dienst, WNBC TV (Channel 4) (via Twitter)
- New York 1 News, (212) NY1-NEWS…
Great info all around. Despite the meme that’s been floating around for a week, this story is getting press coverage, but it could use more.
Curious if Tumblr would consider creating an #occupywallstreet curated tag. This seems like a great opportunity to do something with this feature. Who else do you guys think is doing a great job covering this story on Tumblr?
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