Wall Street Protest

[William]

  Has anyone seen or heard about the wall street protest on any news channel?????????????????   Is it a news blackout??????

  Xanthas did post something here on it.  http://www.hyperspacecafe.com/forum11/9138.html


    Do you think this is important enough to be on our nightly news???

ONe webpage said only 200 people showed up for it..   Another webpage said this.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/...st-protest

Wall Street protest: anti-capitalists on the march - in pictures Thousands of anti-capitalist demonstrators took to the streets of Lower Manhattan on Sunday 18 September vowing to occupy Wall Street and 'bring justice to the bankers'

[xanthas]

Is it a news blackout??????

Yes, William, which is why I posted it here.


[color="#0000ff"]Blackout: CNN, Fox, and MSNBC Ignore Thousands Of US [color="#ff0000"]Day Of Rage[/color] Protesters[/color][color="#0000ff"] [/color]September 18, 2011

By Jason Easley - Politics USA

Most Americans are being kept in the dark about the US [color="#ff0000"]Day of Rage[/color] by the corporate cable news giants at CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC who have imposed a de facto blackout on the protest.

Even though estimates have varied from hundreds to as many as 50,000 protesters flooded into Manhattan and others cities to take part in [color="#0000ff"]events around the country[/color] to, “nonviolently disrupt the disloyal, incompetent, and corrupt special interests which have usurped our nation’s civil and military power, spawning a host of threats to our liberty, lives and national security,” the three cable news networks have devoted no airtime to the story.This is becoming an all too familiar scene. [color="#0000ff"]In Wisconsin hundreds of thousands of regular people took to the streets each weekend to protest the theft of their rights[/color], and were completely ignored by CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC.

Sarah Palin’s Iowa tea party speech was 1/50 as big as the Wisconsin protests, yet she was deemed worthy of national media coverage.

The kowtowing of the corporate media to the conservative agenda continued last week as CNN climbed in bed with the Tea Party Express to host a Republican presidential debate that was chocked full of rhetoric about how taxes must be cut to protect the same “job creators” who crashed the US economy in 2008, and have continued to reap record profits by sitting on bailout money, and not hiring any new workers.

CNN decided that the Tea Party was a worthy news partner, but covering a protest that is happening right under their very noses in New York City is not important to the American people. (In fact as I type this, CNN is running another self-congratulatory segment on their Tea Party Express debate/total sellout to the right). No one expects the pro-business corporate propaganda/GOP propaganda mouthpiece Fox News to devote any coverage to the [color="#0000ff"]occupation of Wall Street[/color], but the supposed progressive news network, MSNBC can’t “lean forward” long enough to turn off their true crime doc block to cover an event that is happening minutes away from their studios.

[color="#0000ff"]The corporate cable news media ignored Wisconsin, and now they are ignoring the protests of regular Americans who want their democracy placed back into their hands.[/color] The corporate media have proven time and time again that they are an obstacle to, not a provider of truth. Unlike the bogus tea party movement, the [color="#ff0000"]Occupy Wall Street protest[/color] features [color="#ff0000"]people of all ages, colors, shapes, sizes, and political affiliations.[/color] These people are protesting a broken system. They are protesting a loss of freedom. They are protesting inequality, and they are fighting for our rights.

Whether or not the corporate media cameras are in attendance, [color="#0000ff"] the protests will go on. Americans will continue to march[/color], and those who love their country will continue to battle to make it better.

The conservative media bias of the cable news industry can and will be overcome. We don’t need video to feel the heart of America beat strong.

(Note: The 50,000 was an estimated attendance. Other estimates place the number of attendees in NYC in the hundreds to the thousands. The title has been changed to reflect conflicting attendance estimates).

http://www.blacklistednews.com/Blackout%...8/Y/M.html


[flash=425,344]http://www.youtube.com/v/eTAVWKdOdtw&feature=player_embedded&hl=en&fs=1[/flash]

[NobleSy]

Yea, this should be reported as nightly news. Too bad mass media isn't working for the people.

[Richard]

Yahoo Appears To Be Censoring Email Messages About Wall Street Protests.

[flash=425,344]http://www.youtube.com/v/cmj9Tfs9ijU&hl=en&fs=1[/flash]

[Sifter]

the first link posted in the opening of this thread shows that it was uploaded on youtube april 2010.

An important point I'd like to make is that we have NO way to verify any of these postings. It would be nice if it were true but unless you have friends or family there that participated, you just can't know for sure any of this.

(nothing to comment on the yahoo censorship about how to verify that either)

[Sifter]

.. and that is the sad state of our technological age... when you have access to talk to any one in the world.

[Q3eory]

There is No Freaking Way that "hundreds of thousands" can do Anything "in public" and be ignored/blacked out or whatever.

[Sifter]

sure there is... it's not aired on Tee Vee so only those participating know it's happening. I think that's the point of the thread.

How're ya doin' Q?

[xanthas]

There is No Freaking Way that "hundreds of thousands" can do Anything "in public" and be ignored/blacked out or whatever.

Right before the invasion of Iraq back in March 2003, people all over the US were rallying against another war. In Georgia, Florida, California, New York, and some other places.

People in Europe never found out. No bleep on TV. Nothing at all.

I was living in CA at the time and KPFK (Pacifica.org) was one of the few that really told it like it was. It was reported on radio (not NPR, of course! - I did not have a tv at the time) but the rallies were barely mentioned - if at all in the papers across the country.

And, I can tell you that much, the protests against the Iraq invasion were absolutely enormous. The Wall Street protests pale by comparison. But it was not mentioned by the big media corporations.

[xanthas]

Here's an update.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/09/w...ening.html

Definitely worth checking out!