Blatantly Biased Tabloids and Clueless Mainstream Media Keep Missing the Obvious Big Story at OWS

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Alternet

By Sarah Seltzer

Blatantly Biased Tabloids and Clueless Mainstream Media Keep Missing the Obvious Big Story at OWS

Many mainstream news outlets are flummoxed at best, condescending at worst, when it comes to their coverage of the new movement.

November 8, 2011 |

"Occupy Wall Street, go home!" The New York Post has launched what can best be described, metaphorically, as an "all-out-war" on the protesters camping downtown in Zuccotti Park, making a naked effort to aid any ouster by throwing every filthy hippie stereotype in the book at the occupiers and seeing what sticks (so far, not much).

If the Post, and other media players, stepped away from Zuccotti Park, or flashpoint rallies, they might see something different: seriousness, cooperation, an "open-source movement " that is actually (really, it is!) different in key ways from other social justice coalitions that have come before it, instead of trying to fit this into a traditional media narrative.

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It's this kind of weird insistence on neutrality over solid reporting that leads to statements like "Occupy Wall Street activists are protesting against what they say is a growing inequality" when in fact, the facts are out there and the numbers document that inequality has grown. So why put it in the protester's words?

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Russ Baker writes of "traditional" media outlets covering Occupy Wall Street: "These institutions of inquiry—and the kinds of people chosen to run them— are not our best hope for understanding and solving our problems. We need to move on to something new, and better."

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[orpupilofnature57]

1. Misanthrope Sycophant Machines are meant to minimize anything that impedes

Money ,Ru Dirt taught them.

[sandyshoes17]

2. They're not clueless

They know exactly what they are doing, trying to make us clueless.

[greytdemocrat]

3. And it hasn't been hard. n/t

[lunatica]

4. Yes, but it's time to shed light on the media too

It's practices and obvious bias need to be brought into the light of day. It's not just Wall Street or the banks. The media has been complicit and it needs to be exposed.

[Enthusiast]

7. Great post!

The media's practices and obvious bias need to be brought into the light of day. Right on!

[Enthusiast]

6. You are so correct!

"They know exactly what they are doing, trying to make us clueless."

[Enthusiast]

5. Actually, one of the biggest stories about OWS

is how united the media is in obfuscating the truth of about the movement. This is truly a huge story. It's worse than the cheer leading that led up to the Iraq War