Too bad Murdoch isn't happy. Wah-Wah. Without free press, democracy doesn't work. The monied interests are used to controlling what you think. Now, ilk like Murdoch would have you think it's a disorganized movement without message. No clear message? Wall Street bankers gambled away trillions in savings and pension funds of those who have worked and contributed something to society, and they get a government bailout. No clear message? The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq drag on while those corporate backed teabaggers and their corporate #### in Congress talk about shredding the safety net for the elderly and disabled, and cutting healthcare and education spending for the other 99%.
Murdoch should be worried. In Austin, B of A had security guards at the door and bank customers had to show a debit or credit card to enter. B of A gets it alright.... the plutocracy is getting scared... the docile downwardly mobile middle class isn't drinking the kool-aid any more. Balancing the budget on the backs of the elderly, disabled, and poor is no way to run a society. Societies are judged by how they treat their least fortunate members. The protesters have had enough this worthless trickle down supply side economics.
Rupert Murdoch Declares War On Occupy Wall Street
ProudProgressive
2011/10/10 16:44:04
Rupert Murdoch Uses His Media Empire to Declare War On Occupy Wall Street
October 10, 2011
By Jason Easley
In what amounts to a declaration of war against Occupy Wall Street, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has launched a misinformation assault on the 99% across multiple parts of his media empire.
Here is the video from Media Matters:
Steve Doocy quoted almost verbatim from a New York Post article that highlighted the crime, drug abuse and free food at Occupy Wall Street. Here are some of the parts of the article that Doocy read almost as written on the air,
Wanted for burglary, the drug-addled fugitive said some of his hard-partying pals clued him in that the protest was a good place to be fed, get wasted and crash. "I've been smoking and drinking in here for eight days now," said Dave, booze on his breath and his eyes bloodshot as he lay sprawled on a tattered sheet of cardboard. "I need to get some methadone. Every day, I wake up, and I'm f–ked up." Drugs can be easy to score — a Post reporter was offered pot for $15 and heroin for $10.
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The free chow offered to protesters was boosting the crowd.
"People say they are here for the cause, but the real reason is the free food," quipped Cameron, 26, of Jersey City. "On my third day, they had smoked salmon with cream cheese. You know how much smoked salmon is a pound? Sixteen dollars. I eat better here than I do with my parents!"
At one point yesterday, a speaker from Washington, DC, told protesters how to break out of zip ties and handcuffs in case they get collared. The protest vet, Ryan Clayton, 30, demonstrated how use a bobby pin to spring the cuffs open — while claiming he was "not encouraging people to break out of restraints."
News Corp owned Fox News used the quotes from the also News Corp owned Post to substantiate their claims that the people attending Occupy Wall Street are criminals, druggies, and hippies who are only there for the free food. The point of writing such stories and essentially reading them on Fox News is not only to smear Occupy Wall Street, but also to scare News Corp readers and viewers who might be having sympathetic feelings or even considering standing with the 99%.
News Corp is trying to portray the protests as dangerous places full of shady characters where drugs and sex are running rampant. The Post article even worked in a quote and a reference to Woodstock. The strategy is clear. News Corp is combining their resources to spread an anti-Occupy Wall Street message across multiple media properties and platforms. This is an escalation of their attack on the protesters and their message.
Murdoch is using his vast media empire to declare war on Occupy Wall Street and the 99%. News Corp is now coordinating their message and attacks. The anti-Occupy message has been appearing on several News Corp owned properties individually, but the media giant is now trying to unify the dissemination of their misinformation. News Corp has gone from mocking the protests, to denying the size of the protests, to launching an all-out coordinated misinformation campaign against Occupy Wall Street.
News Corp and the right wing media have been trying for over a week now to slow down the growth of this movement with no success. More people are joining the existing protests, and new protests are springing up around the country. The 99% don't have a Rupert Murdoch, but they do have thousands of people taking to Twitter, Facebook, blogs and websites to report the truth about these protests.
The one percent have their media machine churning out their propaganda 24/7, but they are fighting a message war that they are destined to lose.
October 10, 2011
By Jason Easley
In what amounts to a declaration of war against Occupy Wall Street, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has launched a misinformation assault on the 99% across multiple parts of his media empire.
Here is the video from Media Matters:
Steve Doocy quoted almost verbatim from a New York Post article that highlighted the crime, drug abuse and free food at Occupy Wall Street. Here are some of the parts of the article that Doocy read almost as written on the air,
Wanted for burglary, the drug-addled fugitive said some of his hard-partying pals clued him in that the protest was a good place to be fed, get wasted and crash. "I've been smoking and drinking in here for eight days now," said Dave, booze on his breath and his eyes bloodshot as he lay sprawled on a tattered sheet of cardboard. "I need to get some methadone. Every day, I wake up, and I'm f–ked up." Drugs can be easy to score — a Post reporter was offered pot for $15 and heroin for $10.
…
The free chow offered to protesters was boosting the crowd.
"People say they are here for the cause, but the real reason is the free food," quipped Cameron, 26, of Jersey City. "On my third day, they had smoked salmon with cream cheese. You know how much smoked salmon is a pound? Sixteen dollars. I eat better here than I do with my parents!"
At one point yesterday, a speaker from Washington, DC, told protesters how to break out of zip ties and handcuffs in case they get collared. The protest vet, Ryan Clayton, 30, demonstrated how use a bobby pin to spring the cuffs open — while claiming he was "not encouraging people to break out of restraints."
News Corp owned Fox News used the quotes from the also News Corp owned Post to substantiate their claims that the people attending Occupy Wall Street are criminals, druggies, and hippies who are only there for the free food. The point of writing such stories and essentially reading them on Fox News is not only to smear Occupy Wall Street, but also to scare News Corp readers and viewers who might be having sympathetic feelings or even considering standing with the 99%.
News Corp is trying to portray the protests as dangerous places full of shady characters where drugs and sex are running rampant. The Post article even worked in a quote and a reference to Woodstock. The strategy is clear. News Corp is combining their resources to spread an anti-Occupy Wall Street message across multiple media properties and platforms. This is an escalation of their attack on the protesters and their message.
Murdoch is using his vast media empire to declare war on Occupy Wall Street and the 99%. News Corp is now coordinating their message and attacks. The anti-Occupy message has been appearing on several News Corp owned properties individually, but the media giant is now trying to unify the dissemination of their misinformation. News Corp has gone from mocking the protests, to denying the size of the protests, to launching an all-out coordinated misinformation campaign against Occupy Wall Street.
News Corp and the right wing media have been trying for over a week now to slow down the growth of this movement with no success. More people are joining the existing protests, and new protests are springing up around the country. The 99% don't have a Rupert Murdoch, but they do have thousands of people taking to Twitter, Facebook, blogs and websites to report the truth about these protests.
The one percent have their media machine churning out their propaganda 24/7, but they are fighting a message war that they are destined to lose.
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Rebel Yell 2011/10/10 17:25:59
http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Neither should mean anything. Giving credence to one only begs equality for the other.
PP is too stupid to understand.
Are you kidding me, was there ever ANY chance he wouldn't?
Perhaps because the right wing fringe is so weak that it needs the outsider to push their point of view in an organized manner.
Do you defend this guy?
now as for fox news proving to be bogus, again, i think it's funny they praised the tea party for what they claimed to be about, but when occupy wall street comes up saying they are for the same thing they get attacked. this i why fox news isn't real news, they clearly take sides and they let you know it.
they pointed it out on the daily show http://www.thedailyshow.com/w...
and yes comedy can also be informative, they are just pointing they are being hypocritical
http://www.observer.com/2011/...
Perhaps this is the real reason Rupert Murdoch is pissed! LOL!
""We're organizing in communities around New York State -- but we don't hire people to Occupy Wall Street. Then again, if you believe the laughable conspiracy theories from Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh, this is probably the wrong job for you anyway."
http://newyork.craigslist.org...
if it was i wold say it's mostly likely because some people took the message the wrong way, otherwise they might of deleted it
There were many hundreds of people, mostly young, but of many different ethnicities. The vast majority were walking about holding signs. All were hand made. Nothing professional. Many were old. Many were being made on the spot. The park was set with a perimeter of standard NYC police barricades and sufficient openings to get out in a hurry. Police were all over the place and I do not have any issue with this. People can get rowdy in large gatherings. But generally, things were peaceful and organized. People in this large group were well behaved, demonstrated no penchant for violence and obeyed authority when asked. There were only a handful of white shirts this day.
From what I could tell, the police were somewhat annoyed at having to being there. My sense was that they thought they were baby-sitting.
There was a long drum in session going on which got the gathered crowd in this section elated.
There was the rare odor of pot in the air but no overwhelming mass drug fest atmosphere like one would encounter at a rock concert.
Conditions were as one might find at any outdoor venue but it didn’t stink. There were food vend...
There were many hundreds of people, mostly young, but of many different ethnicities. The vast majority were walking about holding signs. All were hand made. Nothing professional. Many were old. Many were being made on the spot. The park was set with a perimeter of standard NYC police barricades and sufficient openings to get out in a hurry. Police were all over the place and I do not have any issue with this. People can get rowdy in large gatherings. But generally, things were peaceful and organized. People in this large group were well behaved, demonstrated no penchant for violence and obeyed authority when asked. There were only a handful of white shirts this day.
From what I could tell, the police were somewhat annoyed at having to being there. My sense was that they thought they were baby-sitting.
There was a long drum in session going on which got the gathered crowd in this section elated.
There was the rare odor of pot in the air but no overwhelming mass drug fest atmosphere like one would encounter at a rock concert.
Conditions were as one might find at any outdoor venue but it didn’t stink. There were food vendors just outside the area and provisions within the park itself. Donation bins were set out. We put in our 2 bucks. There were children present but I’d say as far as demonstrators, they were from young teens to their 60’s. There was certainly no orgy mentality and everyone was civil. Thousands of tourists and NY’ers passed by while the protesters stood relatively still, quiet for the most part, but some boisterous with signage. There was information booths, a news paper printed by the occupiers now in its second issue. The, “Rent is too damn high”, guy was there. He ran for Governor. He lost.
Overall, I sensed something young, and growing in the air. There was an urgency but there was also some mild confusion as what to do next. (This may be more subjective than objective). Yes, the country has gotten our attention-the Europeans have been wondering why it has taken so long-but how do we effect real change? Whilst stating the obvious message, we can’t trust the banks or wall street to get it right or do the right thing, they are also bitter about the cronyism between them and the political elite. It would seem going to complain to either party is moot.
Those that smear this as nothing more than a bunch of drug-addled and lazy youth are seriously delusional or outright liars. We are all aware of the imbalance in power held by the rich, political elite and their money backers who buy preferential treatment and consideration. There is nothing new here. Politics has worked this way for eons. What people are authentically distressed over is the relentless pandering to the wealthy as if they need so much help to both get and remain so. Contrast that with multinationals holding onto trillions in profit reserves and not lending money or creating jobs which the GOP swears is because they are uncertain about the future. Tie that to GOP efforts to limit or eliminate Union activities, cut long standing entitlements without national debate and it would require one to be drug-addled to not understand the forest of events now over-taking the culture of this once great country now teetering like so many of our European counterparts.