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Media Fail: Cable News Networks Ignoring Occupy Wall Street Protests (UPDATE)

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Anyone living in the greater New York area has likely been glued to their televisions this morning, at work or at home, watching the overhead helicopter shots and on-the-ground reporting from the Occupy Wall Street protests on local news (PIX 11 and Fox 5, in particular, were all over it). Yes, this may be a local story at heart, but there are occupy movements in every major city, and the scope of OWS has gone global. Plus, some of of the overhead shots — when a protester tries to run past a police barricade and is swarmed on by police, who arrest and drag him away — is as hypnotizing as the car chases that cable news networks usually cut to on slow days.

While Fox 5 in New York has been on top of the protests for most of the morning (literally — their helicopter shots have been top notch in chronicling the protests), a quick jump around the dial a little after 9 a.m. showed a general disinterest in the unfolding action in downtown Manhattan:

MSNBC: Chuck Todd talking about the East Asia summit
CNN: a story on Newt Gingrich’s Freddie Mac fees
FOX News: Mitt Romney polling graphics
HLN: Mike McQueary e-mail coverage

Whether you agree with the OWS protests or not, they make for compelling television. And when Fox 5 went away from them to do a spotlight on pets, the video crack of getting to watch protesters get thrown to the ground and dragged away by cops (or, for the other end of the spectrum, the chance to watch a minor historical event unfold) was taken from us.

Hopefully Fox comes to their senses soon, and bails on the usual banal morning show fodder to get the overhead shots of the protests back on live TV. We may be watching for all the wrong reasons, but the fact that we’re watching should be all the reason they need.

UPDATE: A CNN spokesperson clarifies to Mediaite that the network did cover the protests during part of their morning programming:

“CNN Newsroom’s first six minutes of the broadcast featured the Occupy Wall Street protesters. We had our reporter Mary Snow on the ground and Alison Kosik from the New York Stock Exchange talking to anchor Fredricka Whitfield about Occupy Wall Street protesters vowing to shutdown Wall Street.”

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  • Anonymous

    Did Chuck Todd mention that Obama thinks Hawaii is Asia?  Or did that gaffe go unnoticed?

    I was watching the live stream ya’ll put up on this board.  I agree, all the networks should be showing it to demonstrate how unruly these anarchists have become – these are Obama’s peeps.  Give them an inch and they take a mile, the gimmie gimmie gimmie crowd.

  • Give me a break

    No failure at all its seems only the liberal media are the only ones who want to pump this up about this point. People have seen enough of their act to get a opinion on them.

  • Farnsworth

    Sometimes I suspect that Mediaite is just a load of escaped mental patients all posting replica inanity from a massive warehouse in the middle of nowhere

  • Searle6

    And as soon as someone hires “Nando Di Fino” to produce a television program, she can “cut to” whatever she wishes. 

    Maybe it’s only the usual New-York-Is-The-Center-of-The Universe-No-Wait-It-IS-The-Universe”, but what exactly makes you think any of this today is even a “minor historical event”?  Also, you mean “historic”, not “historical”. 

  • Anonymous

    Media should ignore the smelly rabble. All they want is attention & face-time. Ignore then, & they will slink back to their parent’s basements & watch porn.

  • OccupyRuppArena

    Nando, you worked for ESPN…why do you think North Carolina is ranked over Kentucky?

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    Oh man, that Obama is soooooo stoooopid.  I can not believe he thinks Hawaii is in Asia.  What a dummy!!

    See!! See!! This is proof he didn’t go to Columbia and Harvard!!

    First we proved he was a Muslim.
    Then we proved he wasn’t born in the US
    AND now, the big bombshell, we just proved Obama didn’t go to college at Columbia and Harvard!!

    IMPEACH!! IMPEACH!! Socialist!! Marxist!! Satan!! IMPEACH!! IMPEACH!!

    Freakin’ Liberal media and freakin’ Chuck Todd.

    Tina, seems like you and me are of similar ilk.  What do you say to a hamburger and movie this Friday night? I’d love to pick your brain. Although, knowing how smart you are, it would take me an eternity to dig around in that bowl of jelly sitting on top of your head that you refer to as your brain 

  • Ralph

    There’s no question that live coverage from the ghetto birds top anything but an OJ chase.  Need some burning tires to help set the mood and make it more surreal.

  • Anonymous

    OWS fatigue from seeing to many stories. OWS have brought their causes to the public, but now it is time for a new strategy.

  • mhandrh

    Gee, I didn’t realize there were so many one-percenters reading Mediaite.
     
     

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    Oh man, that Obama is soooooo stoooopid.  I can not believe he thinks Hawaii is in Asia.  What a dummy!!

    See!! See!! This is proof he didn’t go to Columbia and Harvard!!

    First we proved he was a Muslim.
    Then we proved he wasn’t born in the US
    AND now, the big bombshell, we just proved Obama didn’t go to college at Columbia and Harvard!!

    IMPEACH!! IMPEACH!! Socialist!! Marxist!! Satan!! IMPEACH!! IMPEACH!!

    Freakin’ Liberal media and freakin’ Chuck Todd.

    Tina, seems like you and me are of similar ilk.  What do you say to a hamburger and movie this Friday night? I’d love to pick your brain. Although, knowing how smart you are, it would take me an eternity to dig around in that bowl of jelly sitting on top of your head that you refer to as your brain

  • Anonymous

    Or that Obama didn’t know that there is no Austrian language, asking for the term of something is in Austrian. The Apologist-in Chief doesn’t know that they (Austrians) speak German. Or that there is 50 states in the United States, not 57.

  • Anonymous

    Liberal media is tiring of it because while the professed issues are legitimate the methods and behavior of the movement has been reprehensible.  Liberal supporters need to put a stop to this movement, or at least restructure it, before serious violence erupts.  I’d expected more much of the last year there would be violence (from the left) at the election conventions next year, this movement seems likely to turn wide-spread violent even prior to the conventions.

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    I heard you Farnsworth..  Nothing but a bunch of evil libtards who sing the praises of Odumo (I stole that brilliant name from another brilliant conservative – but not as brilliant you, me, and Tina).

    LAMESTREAM media!!!!!!

    Libtards!!!

  • Matt

    Of course they’re ignoring it, because as soon as I turn on CNN they’re posting today’s “Occupy” schedule of when they plan to occupy the subways, march, etc. Must be nice to have free publicity.

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    Down with the LIBERAL MEDIA!!

    They stink on ice.  Hell, even my favorite network, Fox News, is going lefty.  Did you hear what Tucker and Ann said yesterday? They are total libs.

    We conservatives need to find a non-RINO, media TV outlet.  That’d be awesome!!

  • Anonymous

    C Span 3 has Sec. Chu testifying before Congress, with Dems already denying that a scandal is a scandal.

    Chu is there to deflect blame from Obama, who is up to his ears in the Solyndra Scam and so many others.

  • Farnsworth

    What on earth are you on about?

  • Arianna

    I have frankly had enough of this. I support their right to protest, but
    not disrupt the flow of business in New York City. The ignorant
    comments and the debauchery were unsettling, but now the whole movement
    is just a ridiculous mob.

  • Anonymous

    True reasons for the protests go unreported; a guy cannot
    get laid on 10 bucks an hour. Masturbation is not an accepted alternative. The Fuhrer
    promised inexpensive sex to the horny underclass and got their votes.

  • sooze

    I still like “corpse man” best….

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGwcaBO-DtU Karl Spensen

    EVERYTHING about what you just said is RELEVANT and makes total SENSE!!!!!!!!!!!1111

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    What do you consider Hawaii to be, considering the composition of the indigenous citizens and the ASIAN-PACIFIC LEADERS CONFERENCE that Obama was addressing?

    Would you have addressed Asian leaders by saying,  “Here in the Pacific”…as in the Ocean?  As if the leaders were amphibious, and not actually Asian?

    -Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

     Oh, so the ONLY language Austrians speak is German? 

    –Cobra

  • TSK

    How come the flea baggers aren’t protesting Freddie and Fannie?

    How come the flea baggers aren’t protesting at the White Hut? Where the man who occupies that residence is the beneficiary of the most Wall street donations in over twenty years?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Let’s be sure to show elderly women being sprayed by the police while we’re at it, Tiny_Tampon.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Interestingly, although the this manifestation of the movement is losing support, the American people support the movement itself. In other words, the issues resonate, as they should. Time to move onto a new methodology, I agree.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    CNBC was covering the OWS movement this morning, probably because the protesters headed to Wall Street!!

    Also, happy 2 month birthday to OWS!!

  • Anonymous

    I can’t believe the state ran media is ignoring the flea baggers especially after Oblamer has endorsed them!!

    Maybe all the rapes and killings were too much for him to be associated with……racist preachers and self admitted terrorsts are OK though!!

  • Anonymous

    Fox News has been reporting on the protests in every broadcast.  The local Fox station is working full time on it.  Your fantasy-news favorites have been too busy talking about Cain’s gaffes to pay attention to the protests.  The Cain gaffes fits with their agenda, protesters acting like spoiled children do not.  

    I recognize your picture, there is no bigger conservative hater on this site.

  • http://twitter.com/maggiefanelli Maggie Fanelli

    I heard only like 1,000 people showed up, which is the equivalent of any random protest, like a Gays Against the War in Iraq or Teachers Against Waterboarding march.

  • Kid Dynamite

    “Anyone living in the greater New York area has likely been glued to their televisions this morning….”

    Jaysus Christ. Is it too much to expect that a website covering the media would hire literate writers?

  • Darladoon
  • Darladoon

    i don’t even know where to begin describing how utterly doltish you are

  • Darladoon

    indeed, they have

  • RW

    No, no, no: the best is Obama being interviewed by George Stephanopoulos.  George’s mission was to repeat that Obama was a Christian as many times as possible in one interview, and then, wait for it…

    “MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: And John McCain said the same thing about questioning your faith.

    SEN. OBAMA: And what was the first thing the McCain campaign went out and did? They said, look, these liberal blogs that support Obama are out there attacking Governor Palin. Let’s not play games. What I was suggesting – you’re absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith, and you’re absolutely right that that has not come -

    MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Your Christian faith.”

    That’s right George, help him out.  Oops.

  • RW

    Hmmm  sounds familiar – great idea, poor implementation..   Where did we hear that before?

  • Darladoon

    yeah, 1 alleged rape and 1 non-related killing

    and about 20,000 instances of police brutality

  • Pablo

    Polynesia, the Pacific Rim or Hawaii. Because it isn’t Asia.

  • Pablo

    You know what they don’t speak? Austrian. That’s because there’s no such language. But you keep deluding yourself in the hopes of deluding others and propping up the brilliance of your nitwit Messiah.

  • Pablo

    This is a new methodology, Kook. It’s also an old one. Let’s do 1968 all over again, shall we?

  • Pablo

    Also, happy 36th Birthday to 17N

    What a coinkydink, huh?

  • Pablo

    Try again. http://www.verumserum.com/?p=33490

    Arson
    Occupy Fort Collins – Member arrested, $10 million in damage
    Occupy Portland -  Member arrested for throwing Molotov Cocktail
    Occupy Seattle – Suspicious fire at Bank of America 2.7 miles from camp
    Occupy Portland – Three men arrested with homemade grenades
    Assault/Threats
    Occupy SF – 12 assaults in 24 hours
    Occupy LA – 4 assaults including two with knives
    Occupy Philly – Man punches woman in the face
    Occupy LA – Two assaults including setting someone on fire
    Occupy Berkeley – Police respond to three assault calls per night
    Occupy Wall Street – Three men threaten the life of a sexual assault victim
    Occupy Lawrence – Punch thrown
    Occupy Orlando – Knife fight sends man to hospital
    Occupy Portland – Multiple assaults within a 24 hr. period
    Occupy Toledo – Man assaults police officer after arrest
    Occupy San Diego – Woman assaults cameraman
    Occupy Victoria – Man dumps urine on city worker
    Occupy Vancouver – Two police officers bitten during near riot
    Occupy Oakland – Death threats
    Occupy Austin – Man in Joker make-up arrested for brandishing knife
    Occupy Oakland – Man sets his dog on reporter
    Occupy Oakland – Man pulls a knife in camp
    Occupy Wall Street – Photographer assaulted
    Drugs/Dealing
    Occupy Boston – Two drug busts in a week
    Occupy Boston – Another drug arrest
    Occupy Boston – Heroin dealers busted were living with 6 year old boy directly behind welcome tent
    Occupy Portland – First hand account “Drugs. Selling…Heroin. Meth.”
    Occupy Portland – Video of open drug use in the camp
    Occupy Portland – “I get high“
    Fraud
    National Lawyer’s Guild member Ari Douglas pretends to be run over by a police scooter
    Illness/Death
    Occupy Santa Cruz – Ringworm outbreak
    Occupy Atlanta – TB outbreak
    Occupy Wall Street – Zuccotti lung outbreak
    Occupy New Orleans – Man discovered in tent had been dead 2 days
    Occupy Portland – Body lice outbreak
    Murder
    Occupy Oakland – Fatal shooting
    Public disturbance
    Occupy Dallas – Protesters block bank entrance, 23 arrested
    Occupy Vancouver – Mob with bullhorn enters bank
    Occupy Wall Street – Protesters block bank entrance, four arrested
    Occupier takes a bathroom break in the street
    Occupy Vancouver – Occupiers disrupt debate, threaten riot when asked to leave
    Occupy Long Beach – Group disrupts city council meeting
    Occupy Boston – Three arrested for occupying Burger King
    Occupy Oakland – Yelling and nonsense at Burger King
    Occupy DC – Group storms AFP event, traps attendees inside
    Rape/Sexual Assault
    Occupy Philly – Man arrested for alleged rape
    Occupy Wall Street – Two sexual assaults unreported to police
    Occupy Wall Street – Man arrested for sexual assault, suspect in rape
    Occupy Dallas – Sex offender allegedly rapes 14 year old
    Occupy Ottawa – Sexual assaults go unreported to police
    Occupy Lawrence – Sexual assault reported
    Occupy Toronto – Foot sniffer arrested
    Occupy Seattle – Man exposes himself to young girls
    Occupy Portland – Sexual assault
    Occupy Wall Street – Drunk gropes women in Zuccotti Park
    Occupy Cleveland – Rape reported after an overnight stay
    Occupy Glasgow – Possible gang rape
    Occupy Baltimore – Multiple reports of harassment
    Occupy Chicago – Man arrested for child porn
    Occupy LA – Man charged with exposing himself to a child
    Sedition
    Occupy DC – Let’s have a coup by taking over the military
    Ted Rall wants occupiers to choose the path of violence
    Occupy DC – Mike Malloy incites crowd to cheer for President Bush’s execution
    Suicide/Overdose
    Occupy Burlington – Man kills himself with handgun
    Occupy Salt Lake City – Man found dead with syringe in his tent
    Occupy Vancouver – Young woman dies of cocaine and heroine overdose
    Occupy OKC – Young man with history of drug abuse found dead
    Theft
    Occupy Portland – Theft is ongoing
    Occupy Boston – Store owner suffers 4 break-ins since camp began
    Vandalism
    Occupy Eureka – Protesters use local bank as a toiletOccupy Portland – Two banks vandalized, promises of more to comeOccupy Oakland – Bank windows broken, Whole Foods vandalized, broken windowsOccupy Boston – Banks vandalized with anarchist, OWS graffitiOccupy Portland – Spike in vandalism near campOccupy SF: ATMs being smeared with fecesOccupy Santa Fe: Banks vandalized with OWS-themed graffitiOccupy San Diego – Vendors cart vandalized with bodily fluidsOccupy graffiti found on PA governor’s mansion

  • http://twitter.com/stanchaz stan chaz

    You do not need to be religious to understand -and embrace- the idea that “Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” But in their blind greed and schemes, the 1% has forgotten and closed their eyes to what the word “society” should really mean. Because of Occupy Wall Street and its offshoots, we are finally talking less about CUTS and more about BLEEDING. Instead of demanding more budget cuts -to be borne by the middle class and poor- we are FINALLY focusing on the shameful bleeding that the poor and middle class has endured for all too long. Instead of talking about even more millionaire tax we’re now talking about fairness and justice – about an economy and a political system that is run for the rich, and by the rich. Instead of talking about LESS government, we are talking about a government that WORKS FOR ALL OF US, not just a favored few. Thank you OWS, for reminding us that people -ordinary working people- really DO matter, and for helping open our eyes to what’s really going on in this country. Thank you OWS, for standing up for the workers, and for those looking for work, and for those that will graduate or come back from war …and find no work. Thank you OWS, for standing your ground, for enduring illegal beatings and arrests – non-violently. Thank you OWS, from all of us who can’t be there in person, from all of us who are working two and three jobs just to keep up, from all of us struggling to raise our children, or caring for our elderly, or just trying to live with some dignity…..while the rich become richer and more powerful, at our expense. The 1% are running this economy. Indeed, they’re running it right into the ground – with their get rich schemes, their shipping of jobs overseas, their tax evasions, and their cuts in social programs. You inspire and motivate us OWS. You strengthen us, and give us hope.  And we’re PROUD OF YOU! This land IS our land! AND WE WANT IT BACK!  We want our FUTURE back! But it’s much more than mere words…. it’s much more than just politics….. it’s your  LIFE, and how you want to live it, and how you WILL live it. The time has come to choose….to risk…and to act. If not now…then when? If not you, then….who? You DO have the power my friend. Don’t let your dreams die

  • Darladoon

    and the list of instances of police brutality is 100,000x that length

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    It’s also Martin Scorsese’s birthday!! Though, I’m sure he doesn’t fit into your conspiracy… or does he??

  • Anonymous

    you don’t even know if you’re male or female…

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    just experiencing what it’s like to be a conservative on this site.  That’s all.

  • Anonymous

    my best friend’s mother makes $73 an hour on the Laptop. She has been fired for 5 months but last month her check was $8294 just working on the computer for a few hours. Read about it and get started following “Online income solutions” on this web site http://xub.me/gf

  • Norbit

    Compare the Cable’s coverage – and mirepresentation – of Tea Party events, and you’ll see not only bias, but outright political propaganda in support of Democratic interests.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    “did that gaffe go unnoticed”
    You well know there’s been a constant effort across the wingosphere, and here as well, to convert that perfectly straightforward answer by the President into a gaffe, which it was not. We’ve gone over this in detail here: the complete transcript, indeed the complete clip of the press conference, is fully available to the public. It shows the President had made quite clear he was discussing the position of Hawaii in the Asia-Pacific economic zone.

    So, you are either ignorant of the facts or lying. Either way, you should just stop, because it makes you look like an authoritarian tool to be raising this falsehood.

  • Pablo

    Occupation. Clue. Pick one from each category.

  • Pablo

    You could start by comparing the similarities between you.

  • Pablo

    Is he a Communist revolutionary? I think not.

  • Pablo

    Post it. How many cops have been so much as suspended?

  • Rex the Wonder God

    “just experiencing what it’s like to be a conservative on this site”
    Precisely: experiencing what it’s like to be one of those ”escaped mental patients all posting replica inanity from a massive warehouse in the middle of nowhere”.

    You must be lonely. Have you considered adopting a pet?

  • Rex the Wonder God

    For new memes like that, we have to insist on a link, because authoritarians have this pattern of being unreliable reporters on such things.

    Also, yes, we’ve heard of the 57 states thing, thanks. Almost 4 years ago, wasn’t it?

  • Pablo

    I’ve got some bad news for you, Sunshine. You’re Probably Part of the 1%

  • Rex the Wonder God

    See, that’s one we all know about, and something I would expect you or anyone to do a dozens of times a day or more: have a conversation with someone who understands what you saying but you misspoke SO LONG AS one were to go to the trouble of isolating it in effort to try to prove it a gaffe. It wasn’t a gaffe; he quite clearly was referring to an authoritarian meme that others, not McCain, were compounding, and the interviewer was actually the one speaking out loud what did not need to be said out loud, to correct the interviewer’s own focus on the thread of the conversation.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Ah, but it IS part of the Asia-Pacific economic region, which is the point.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Can I just say this is VERY encouraging from Nando di Fino, that is, an actual piece of accurate and perceptive reporting. As you Searle6 should know, and may well know, just from reading the post itself, Occupy has gone national and indeed global, and is not now at ‘merely’ New York City-centric phenomenon. If you DID know that before you posted your comment, you are simply trying to cause a distraction, like making spitballs during a middle school class. If you are still actually in middle school, you should be aware that things will get better, and you should grow out of this stage. If you are actually now an adult, then you should seek help for you identity problem, because you are wasting your life as an authoritarian tool and volunteer zombie.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    This of course misses the point about movements involving millions of people around the nation and in other countries. That many people means at least that many motivations, and no singular focus is possible. A better appreciation is that SOME involved in Occupy will move to doing other things aimed at satisfying their desires for THEIR particular goals, others will cease to be active, still others will join in the movement or one of its further modes. There is no reason to doubt that Occupy will have knock-on effects for years if not decades.

  • Pablo

    It’s the Pacific part of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperative, nitwit. You know what it isn’t? Asia.

  • Pablo

    I don’t see where the #OccupyFailure to shut down the NYSE is reported.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    The other factor is that polling is an inexact process, not a science, and even in the best of polling, there is a built-in error factor. We see this more clearly in the daily polling that outfits like Gallup do in the heat of the period preceding a presidential election, where outliers get identified more easily, even though some get all excited by the appearance of sudden shifts. But polling about phenomena such as Occupy is far more difficult to do, and what makes it even more difficult is that there really has not been a phenomenon “like” Occupy in our lifetimes. Protest marches for expansion of civil rights and against the wars in Viet Nam and Iraq were far more focused by their very nature.

  • Anonymous

    Your schtick ain’t funny. 

  • Rex the Wonder God

    But the thing is, thoughtful, well-motivated humans ALWAYS move onto new methods; indeed, the most active participants in Occupy were constantly adjusting their methods. 

    It should come as no surprise that many Americans, who get polled, show in polling settings how easily they can be bored. That’s part of the human condition, particularly in these fast-moving times. One should be careful not to over-read polling, imputing meaning to it that does not exist.

  • Pablo

    …the nature of Occupy being utterly unfocused. Most tantrums have some sort of objective, and they’re designed and executed by toddlers. 

  • Rex the Wonder God

    This is not 1968, obviously, nor is the context easily comparable. It may provide you comfort to post a snarky comment, but that does not make your comment at all perceptive or useful, let alone accurate. 

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Just in time to shout out a little distraction, right GD? You are such a tool.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    My oh my, you really don’t have a nuanced or open mind, do you? Or else you are an authoritarian tool; short comments make it difficult to tell.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    One of your fellow authoritarians already posted this on Mediaite yesterday. As you know, it only serves as an attempt to shout down discussion, not to advance it. Every one of these events, if they actually occurred (some did not), has its own details and nuances; just posting a list is truly lazy, especially when it’s simply lifted by cut and paste from another website (cough*Breitbart*cough).

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Back to bed, Nobits; you missed the boat again.

  • Anonymous

    They speak: Astro_Bavarian, Alemannic, Slovene, Burgenland Croatian, and Hungarian. There is no Austrian Language.

  • Pablo

    What is it, Rex? Enlighten us.

  • Pablo

    What part of ridiculous mob eludes you?

  • http://gawker.com/5482474/the-mysterious-case-of-toure-praising-raped-slaves-for-seducing-massa Touré’s insane mf cousin Phd

    Mediaite is complaining that the OWS losers aren’t getting enough media coverage?
    Are you serious?
    Don’t worry Nando, I’m sure some anti-military vet will get injured or a leftist granny will get pepper sprayed in the face so that you can all post sympathetic OWS stories to help the losers out the way you all do.

  • Pablo

    It’s the part of the discussion you don’t want to have, Rex. All you seem to be able to manage is endless gauzy platitudes about Hope and Change and being so open minded that your brain falls out. You still can’t elucidate a goal for this mess.

    Oh, and that website? Not (cough*Breitbart*cough). But even if it were, asinine little bon mots like that serve only to….wait for it….shout down discussion.

    You suck at this Rex. Put something on the table or go fetch me a sammich.

  • Anonymous

    Where did you get this list, Pablo? 

  • Anonymous

    Didn’t anyone teach you that you don’t justify bad behavior by pointing to more bad behavior?

  • Anonymous

    Why are people bringing drugs to a political protest? Like I have said before on other threads, OWS is now just a big ‘festival’ where people aren’t attending in order to protest, they’re just going there because of the novelty and sense of belonging. 

    Again, why in the hell would anyone need to bring drugs to a political protest if their motives were simply protesting? These OWS ‘protesters’ aren’t going down to Wall Street to motivate change.

  • Anonymous

    How so?

  • Pablo

    Verum Serum. The link is at the top of it, and their post has links in each of the items to the news reports of them.

  • Facts actually matter

    Mediaite is a bunch of hacks on the OWS payroll at this point. What has happened to this site this month. Go back to reporting instead of advocating because you have become a joke. My kids high school had 6,000 people there today for a science and technology fundraiser and to thank the parents for working to raise money for new technology labs. No media on site just a crowd six times the OWS group today making a real difference. Local New York newspapers and television stations (checked 5 different news outlets locally)have all stated the protest started with 500 people max and is now at about 900 to 1,200, and according to Mediaite this demands daily headlines and coverage. Pathetic!

  • FreeMike

    I agree wholeheartedly.  No more Republican debates.

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    schtick?

    No, man. I turned over a new leaf last night. I’m a straight up, hard core right winger as of 3:43 Am last night.

  • Holistic

    CNN having a freaking lovefest with OWS, NY. BS!

  • Anonymous

    Again, not funny. But keep trying. 

  • Norbit

    CNN is trying their best to woo some of msnbc’s radical left audience.

    Don’t be surprised to see Olbermann showing up there, after Gore’s global warming sham money disappears!
    LOL!

  • AliveStillKickin

    No matter how you try to perfume it, Porkchop….. It’s still a heap of steaming dogshit.

  • AliveStillKickin

     Same old shit…..Different day.
    Rape, theft, molestation and shitting in public….reruns.

  • Anonymous

    Not the only one, but they definitely dont speak Austrian because there is no Austrian language. We don’t speak American here, we speak English. It would be the most spoken language in our country. My point is that liberals give a pass when Obama speaks like a moron but go on tirades when a Republican does it. Its the definition of hypocrisy.

  • AliveStillKickin

     And you are a poo-poo head 1 million million billion  times more than you say I am.
    ROFLMAO!!!

  • Anonymous

    How long will liberals harp on the Herman Cain “How do you say delicious in Cuban” thing? Its fine if you want to make fun of him for it, but don’t dare try to defend Obama saying moronic things like he is allowed to and Republicans arent. Im sick of the hypocrisy coming from the left on gaffes. 

  • Anonymous

    Forgot about that one. That was a doozy. We all say stupid things from time to time, yet liberals use those verbal screw-ups to press a meme that that Republican isn’t worthy to be POTUS because of one verbal slip up. If that was the case, then Joe Biden should never have gotten into any elected office. The hypocrisy from the left on gaffes is astounding.

  • proud2teabagu

    When libs are feeding you a line of bull shit they always use the word nuance.

  • proud2teabagu

    Grow up slacker.

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    I’m serious. For real.

  • Anonymous

    The Chicago workers can’t get to work because of the protesters, so in response their signs say ‘occupy a desk’ and ‘occupy a job’.

    So true.    

  • RW

    It might also be a way to create a distraction.  Let’s not focus on the bad economy and the poor response from the Obama administration.  Let’s look at the protesters.  They want the rich to be poor – that way we will all be equal in the USA – equally poor. 

  • Anonymous

    The police wouldn’t have to get involved if the protestors wouldn’t keep breaking the laws. It is only going to get worse as the protestors get more and more desperate for attention!!

    They could seriously learn a lesson by following the example of the Tea Party!!

  • Arianna

    An authoritarian tool? Give me a break.

  • Arianna

    his whole situation is quite unfortunate. I am a member of the
    generation that is protesting and frankly I am sickened by the ignorance
    displayed at these demonstrations. My generation was taught to put the
    collective above the individual and that is the root of the problem.

  • unmutual

     Mediaite Fail:

     What the mainstrean media gets and Nando De Fino doesnt get is that wall to wall coverage of OWS agitating police and stopping people from getting to their jobs is not a positive thing for OWS or the left.

    It’s like these stories are being written and posted directly from some stinky disease infected Occupy tent.

     

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GJAR5QJ6KNYDFJQ5RSWO6KYTTY Anonymous

    Clearly, the author of this entry has a short attention span. I was watching CNN all day and I saw many live reports and/or images from all over New York about the various actions taking place. Then, late in the afternoon starting with the Situation room and all through the evening they did numerous live reports from the rallies and marches.  Poor reporting on the part of Nando Di Fino.

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