Thanks To The 99% Movement, Media Finally Covering Jobs Crisis And Marginalizing Deficit Hysteria

[Kadie]

CHART: Thanks To The 99 Percent Movement, Media Finally Covering Jobs Crisis And Marginalizing Deficit Hysteria
By Zaid Jilani on Oct 18, 2011 at 2:30 pm

Part of the reason economic policymakers have failed to properly address the poor economy is because the nation’s news media has not properly covered the unemployment crisis. For example, at the beginning of August, when Washington, DC was debating the debt ceiling crisis, the national debt dominated the airwaves. While it was appropriate for the media then to be covering the deficit due to the debt ceiling debate at the time, there was a stunning lack of coverage of the jobs crisis. A ThinkProgress review of the media coverage of the last week of July found that the word “debt” was mentioned more than 7,000 times on MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News, and “unemployed” was only mentioned 75 times:



Yet now, things have changed. With the debt ceiling debates behind the country and thanks partly to the pressure being brought upon politicians and the media by the 99 Percent Movement and the occupations taking place all over the country, it looks as if the press is finally focusing on the jobs crisis and the behavior of Wall Street instead. A ThinkProgress review of the same three networks between Oct. 10 and Oct. 16 finds that the word “debt” only netted 398 mentions, while “occupy” grabbed 1,278, Wall Street netted 2,378, and jobs got 2,738:



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http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/10/18/346892/chart-media-jobs-wall-street-ignoring-deficit-hysteria/

[CTyankee]

1. When you've got them by the balls...

their hearts and minds will follow...

[flobee1]

4. unless they keep doing hit peices like inside edition just did

The did a spot on how the protesters are eating "5 star meals"
cooked at a local soup kitchen


really? a soup kitchen cooking 5 star meals?
gimme a fuckin break!

[abelenkpe]

2. Woo Hoo! this is good. nt

[chill_wind]

3. Exactly.

K & R!

[gratuitous]

5. Shouting in their ears

So far, our elected representatives have been quite deaf to the public's preferences. Now we're shouting, and there's been some movement in the popular media, and even one or two elected officials have gotten the message. Will enough of them get with the program, or will the next step come? What do you do after shouting at someone?

The choice of how to react now is solely in the hands of our elected leaders.

[pnorman]

6. OWS ---Thanks, I'll use this!

n/t

[pa28]

7. Another unexpected dividend of OWS.

This is what happens when you push. Democrats should try it more often.

[Lionessa]

8. If it's done nothing else, it has finally gotten the media off ridiculous minutia

that don't matter to most people and focusing on middle class and lower class issues, ie jobs, income disparity, taxing the rich, etc.

NOW IF WE CAN JUST GET CONGRESS TO GET OFF THE RIDICULOUS MINUTIA AND PAY ATTENTION!