The Corporate Media No. 1 - "Occupy Wall Street is 99% dead" by Marketwatch

[TomCADem]

Here is a corporate media commentator declaring like an Iraqi Minister of Information that OWS is dead. Of course, this same corporate media would happily point to a few dozen Tea Party protesters as evidence of a widespread right wing title wave. Also, it is no coincidence that this story appears on Marketwatch. So, there you have it. The financial media is already running a victory lap even as protests continue to grow and spread.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/occupy-wall-street-is-99-dead-2011-11-02?link=MW_popular

how the media are viewing the once-hottest news story: Occupy Wall Street is 99% dead.

In the first phase of Occupy Wall Street, journalists were dazzled by the spirit and the anger of the participants. For a brief, flickering moment, the idea of rallying as an economically aggrieved 99% of the population had terrific potential.

Reporters trekked to Zuccotti Park to observe the latest link in the chain, advancing from the anti–Vietnam War protests of the ’60s and ’70s to the anti-nuclear-power demonstrations that followed them.

Now we’re seeing the lamentable second wave of the Occupy Wall Street story. The spirit has been muffled by people who want to cash in on the popularity of Occupy Wall Street and exploit the participants’ idealism.

[Lindsay]

1. Well, the corporate media

oughta know from exploitation.

[DCKit]

2. OWS obviously needs to take some 20 yr old blonde girls hostage.

In a good way, of course.