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In reply to the discussion: Do you understand why Occupy was infiltrated and broken up? [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)their own imagination, was the 'management' of the media.
You have got to be kidding if you think they did not know what the Coroporate media would do with Wall St. Protestors. That was one of the first things they considered, planned for and wildly succeeded at.
First, they did not WANT the expected biased coverage of Wall St's propaganda machine. They wanted POSITIVE media coverage, and they got it, just as planned.
They WERE the media. Every member of OWS received training on what to do as soon as they hit the streets regarding Media.
You are back in the old days. OWS used the NEW MEDIA to such effect that the minute they set out on the first day, the WHOLE WORLD was involved.
Every member was advised to bring a video camera so they could film every arrest, every abuse, from a hundred different angles. Utube, Twitter, FB and blogs were all involved in covering their every action.
I and millions across the globe were watching, live, late into the night, every interaction they had with the police.
The MSM chose NOT to cover them at all, (like the anti war demonstrations under Bush) at first, hoping that ignoring them would prevent the public from paying any attention to them.
So they went to watch, and OWS filmed that too lol, but didn't film or report on them for about two weeks.
But they forgot how people get their news now, OWS did not. And without a single word on the MSM word of OWS spread faster than wildfire across the country and the world.
Stunned that the world was joining, supporting and spreading the news themselves, bringing in foreign and Idependent media, without them and all of the coverage was POSITIVE, the Corporate Media realized they had better do something in order to control the 'message'.
But it was too late for them to try their usual tricks. Fox sent their fake reporters and were totally annihilated intellectually, booed, exposed like never before, and FILMED, because once again, OWS KNEW that Faux would not broadcast themselves being destroyed, so they filmed everything and put what Faux wanted to censor all over the Internet.
It was a thing of beauty, and one of the best planned media coverage ever by a Social Justice Movement.
CNN Decided to try their hand at discrediting the protestors and sent Erin (Goldman Sachs Poster Girl) Brown down to try to undermine them. She failed, spectacularly and in return had her own Corporate Background totally exposed for the world to see. The woman became a joke and will never live it down. No one deserved it more as she made her arrogant intentions clear and was totally exposed herself instead.
I could go on, but for you to say what you did demonstrates to me that you rely on the Corporate Media, which is a thing of the past to most people, especially young people who did not watch the Corporate Media for 'news'.
Jon Stewart, RT, Al Jazeera, the BBC, African News media, all covered OWS and every country in the world witnessed the brutality of the crackdown by the US on its own peaceful protesters.
And finally, having their own media paid off in court when those arrested appeared and the cops consistently lied about the arrests they made. OWS had footage of every single arrest from every angle and every case was dismissed due to that.
You could not be more wrong in terms of how they used the media. No one watches the US Corporate Media anymore. And OWS did not WANT them there for obvious reasons.
In polls taken shortly after it began, over 80% of the population KNEW who they were and 'approved' of their message. And their slogans passed into the mainstream within weeks and are now part of the English language.
It was brilliant. I never enjoyed watching real news in real time more all over the country and the world.
Oh yes, and then they published their own newspaper, 'The Occupied Wall St. Journal' which they distributed on the streets of NYC for free. It was professionally done with real publishers.
They showed us the way to NOT rely on the compromised Corporate Media.
And it worked. There is no one on this planet who has not heard of OWS and they did it without the Corporate media as planned.