The Corporate Media Occupies a News Blackout
“The revolution will not be objectively reported.” —Richie Alexandro, “Meet Me at Zuccotti”
During the July Fourth hoopla…
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We learned Tom Cruise may be getting divorced.
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They held another hot dog eating contest at Coney Island.
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Hundreds of revolutionaries made the scene at the Occupy National Gathering from June 30 to July 4 in Philadelphia
Which of the above has garnered the least media coverage?
The American corporate media has utilized its entire arsenal in dealing with Occupy Wall Street (OWS). In roughly this order: It was ignored, treated as a curiosity, and then out came the big guns. Occupiers have been portrayed as slumming rich kids, drug addicts, rapists, selfish, lazy, unwashed, and inevitably: terrorists.
These days, the anti-OWS media tactic of choice is an implicit news blackout… with the occasional derisive obituary thrown in for good measure.
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