Reply #9: And no one is going to cover anything else unless something else starts happening. [View All]

[MADem]

Sorry, this "tent business" is getting old. It's the same stale pictures, over and over. People yelling, tents getting tossed in the trash. Nothing about high unemployment. Nothing about bankers getting rich. Nothing about unaccountable lobbyists. Nothing about a shrinking middle class. Nothing about social justice and the lack of a level playing field. Nothing about economic parity. Just yelling and tents. It all looks the same.

I think OWS NYC should take some of that half a million dollars they collected, rent out some decent space, set up a little TV studio and phone bank in it, start broadcasting some quality material and coordinating focused protests, and start behaving professionally. If it wants to be long-term, it has to start acting long-term.

Camping may be fun and develop a nice "esprit de corps" for a select few who like to freeze in a tent on a city sidewalk, but it doesn't get the word out to the 99 percent who have jobs, lives, families, responsibilities.

I want to see sit-ins, all right--in front of home congressional offices, for example. I think demanding that Congress pass the Stock Act is just one good focused protest that could probably be accomplished pretty quickly; there's been a lot of discussion about it lately and striking while the iron is hot is always a good idea.

Of course, that's just my view. The bottom line is, though, is that pictures without context of people yelling, tents and tarps flying, lots of metal barriers, filmed mostly at night, is all we're going to see on TV unless the focus is shifted. Decisively.