Results from a Nexis search for the phrase "income inequality" in the news media.
At least a couple of times, Rachel has pointed out that no matter what you may think of Occupy Wall Street, its success at changing the national dialogue -as measured in the dramatic increase in the use of the phrase "corporate greed"- is undeniable (see below).
On Friday, Dylan Byers, in a post titled "Occupy Wall Street is winning" performed a similar test, searching LexisNexis for use of the phrase "income inequality" and graphing it over time (see above).
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So this just basically proves that the "lame-stream" media is neither as "librul" as it's painted by those on the reich, nor is it really "news" for the populace!! I generally tend to think of the "news hour" as the info-tainment hour dumbing down the masses 1 hour at a time..........
The news (media) generally only reports bad depressing thing - Violence, crime, war. Fuzzy-kitty stories are only on when the anchor is showing signs of clinical depression. Since the beginning of the Occupy movement, there has been an increase of theft, fighting, rape, drugs, etc. No wonder it's trending upward as a current events topic.
Really? An increase of all those crimes? Where? Compared to what? By whom?This is a typically stupid assumption made by the right to be repeated over and over until someone believes it. Let's see some proof of the comment.
The accusations about criminality are amazingly vague, considering how much of news coverage is devoted to crime porn.
Does crime occur among the various occupations? Well, they are made up of people, and people are sometimes criminal, so the odds of some criminality are good. But are they seething dens of iniquity that must be violently stamped out by riot police? Doubtful.
Think it over. Crime among the Occupiers is being put forward as a reason for wiping out the encampments. Doesn't that seem extremely novel? I mean, do the authorities normally embark on a program of forced evictions and razing whenever there's a spike in crime somewhere? We'd have lost a fair few cities and parts of cities long before now if that were the case.
It's not hard to suss out. First came the decision to eradicate the encampments, then came pinning the "reason" on crime (after a brief flirtation with sanitation). It was a decision in search of an excuse.
Simple rule: If an official person is telling you something, start with the assumption that they are lying.
Given also that the Occupations were/are in inner cities with high crime levels it's really pushing it to say that the Occupation is to blame for every crime committed therein.
That is a wonderful trend over a 30 day period.
The problem was created by a sustained effort over 30 years on the part of conservatives.
Yeah, no matter what you may think of the movement and/or the occupiers, I can bet that unemployment for several if not lots and lots of them has to do with what author and political science professor Corey Robin refers to as "Fear: American Style" and "the private life of power."
A taste:
Oh, so that's what happened when a physically fit, ambitious, intellectually competent, reasonable, nice woman left her "fascism-is-alive-and-well-couched-in-religion-in-this-the-U.S.-democracy" religion. Duh.
http //www aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/11/2011111013422670424 html
Outing corporate and boiler room scams are part what the Occupy Wall Street is all about.
The Tea Baggers would like to eliminate law enforcement agencies that protect and prosecute offenders of white collar crimes....
The Republican field of presidential candidates are only using their lime light to sell books and line their pockets running such scams.
It seems that the uneducated voters fall for these scams and lies as real truth.
If you tell a lie long enough, people will believe it, as the supreme neo ___— once said.
No wonder they would like to eliminate any kind of government enforcement...
The Tea Party has nothing to do with eliminating law enforcement agencies.
Further more I would challenge you to explain what you're even referencing regarding boiler room scams.
Do you even have a clue about what a boiler room is?
I would lay money on the fact that not a single person at any of these movements even knows what a boiler room scam would be and beyond that I would venture to say that this has absolutely nothing to do with "wall street". They have nothing left to blame but themselves. Since Liberals have a difficult time accepting personal responsibilities that really only leaves "corporate and boiler room scams".
That was a very clueless and pointless screed you just squeezed out there, Jason. Well done, nobody.
More like occupying the media. The media sets the national dialogue. If you want to change the national dialogue, you have to do something to get the media's attention. It's like the people have to petition the media rather than their representatives.
I'm talking about the media as a whole, not TRMS. Although I've kind of accepted that no matter what I watch, a third of it will be devoted to sex scandals.
Occupy the media? How about Occupy Fox? Now that would get some attention. I wonder what the outcome would be?
U do know there were demonstrators in front of Fox news months and months ago. I saw it because I was actually watching, I think Billo. He was trashing the protestors. None of the other media covered the demonstrators.
One day people will wake up to the fact that the media is all propaganda. The truth only comes out after an event occurs.
Yes Tanya, I did see it. It went viral on the Internet.
I don't watch much TV News. I read newspapers online. I figure if anything truly interesting happens on Fox, it will end up on the Internet.
Fox IS part of the media, and no Fox is not the only problem. TRMS is pretty much the only show I watch at this point.
What legislation has come from occupy wall street? None nor will it. They have no agenda.
The MSM decides what it wants to cover not people sitting in parks,
People have not figured out that ows is a distraction,stared by Canadiens. Wake up people.
Who's the "MSM"?
*The Canadians, (as well as Europeans, who, at best, regard Americans' international unpithiness w/consternation) have the enviable position of not "being in the soup," yielding a more objective stance than We, The People, moshing around in it. Yum. The Canadians, after all, as well as the Australians, are also faring much better than the rest of the world. The Australians, if I recall correctly, were reigning in the banking industry around the same time we were handing out candy to ours. Point being, they got it figured out earlier than The Superpower did. Kudos.
**And on that note, a young, bright Canadian college student I recently met couldn't wait to get the hell away from all the paranoid, angry Americans she encountered in New York. Score another for Canadians.
***Yes, (Sorry, Go The F*ck To Sleep), Americans, Wake the F*ck Up Already. The Occupiers Are Keeping the Vision Present, Alive and Accounted For. At Great Expense & Sacrifice for Some if Not Many. They are the Symbolic Placeholders for YOU. And They Ain't Always Pretty, Because This Ain't Pretty Work. They Represent YOU, your losses, your Sacrifices, Your Anger, YOur Hope
Oh please, write so people can understand what the hell you are talking about. U are not representing anyone but yourselves. I see now women are being raped at these "camps." Diseases are running rampant. What a movement.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/11/occupy-philly-rape-arrest.html
: ) Now, who's the MSM, again? Let's begin here. Or is that too complicated? Er, messy. Or scribbly ding-dong.
MSM mainstream media u know ABC= NBC = CBS = MSNBC = CNN all = FOX News Ever notice all they do is write books and interview one another?
Well if the books are informative... But I once was excited about an interview on Fox with president Obama, and Obama got interrupted so many times I was discouraged. I could not get anything out of the interview. At least MSNBC and the others let everyone talk and answer the questions without interruptions. I do not watch Fox any more. They never let any one speak or say where do they get the info they want to disseminate. All they do is criticize.
It's easy to not interrupt when you only sing from the same hymnal.....
Hey guys, I just finished watching a documentary on CNBC about how prisoners are taking jobs from the honest Americans while getting paid pennies on the dollar. Companies are getting things build for almost nothing and yet they have not lower the price of those items.
It reminded me of the movie "GONE WITH THE WIND" when Scarlet paid someone to use prisoners to work for just their food. Those southerners are something else, they always have to have slaves of some kind. "Andl profits are growing sky high".
Something else about the private prisons. Those companies get paid by the American tax payers per prisoner. Yet companies used them and make profit without paying the taxpayers. The prisoners do not even pay taxes, which means it does not increase the tax revenues.
When is our country going to wake up. Notice in that documentary, ALEC was mentioned.
The spokeswoman for ALEC said that it is wise to get the companies and legislators together because it is the same as getting educators and legislators together. Except that educators are not a private entity and legislators are representing the tax payers (supposedly) and not after their own stocks and bonds profits. They also are obligated to say what they spoke about. The meetings with ALEC are private because they companies are private companies.
Since the Alabama immigration bill, Alabama is working on a program to use prisoners to work the fields in place of the illegal immigrants. Without that, the farmers, that built their business on slave labor would fail. In construction, contractors are slowly starting to hire citizens again, although demand is low due to the economy. The law has it's warts, but is working in the interim till the Federal Government gets around to working on immigration.
So, the use of an indentured workforce to eliminate the need of a slave labor in some cases is a means to an end. To use it instead of private labor should be discouraged.
Rachel,
You just mentioned on your show that there are "thousands" of these occupy movements going on around the country. Oh, really? Thousands?
Secondly, your guest defended the right of the Oakland protesters to trash the park they occupied as a "misunderstanding". Only pigs defoul the sty they live in. The rest of us have a slightly higher living standard.
Your comment is not serious. You are just a tr0ll. Possibly even a paid tr0ll. The ideology you are fronting for is not only wrong, but disgraceful and objectively ruinous.
Apart from that, another reason for saying that you are not serious is that, even though you have a computer and Internet access, you couldn't raise enough energy to do anything but throw empty and ignorant snark around. A serious person would attempt to debunk what you disagreed with (or were instructed to disagree with) and might have come across www.occupytogether.org/actions/ or //www.occupywallst.org/attendees/ or www.occupynews.blogspot.com/ and have seen that, yes, it's a big and growing movement. Except doing that would have taken initiative and intellectual honesty.
It is very clear that all that you are interested in is regurgitating the nonsense that's been poured into your passive brain. So, really, I didn't provide those links for your benefit, as that would be akin to taking Helen Keller to a talkie. But some reading the blog for honest reasons may not have been aware of those sites but are genuinely interested anyway.
As for you, go away. Your ideology is a failure. It's a lost cause. You are lashing out, but not because you disagree with OWS. Disagreement requires understanding, but all you've got is fear. You are lashing out in blind terror at something you can't and won't understand, because it questions and challenges the status quo. Protecting the status quo against change is what "conservatism" is all about, even when what you are blindly serving is destructive to your own interests. So, really, what use are you and your comments? Just go away.
Not really. When they stage daily or weekend protest that make their point, clean-up and disband they can be effective. Look at the success of the Tea Party in placing so many candidates in 2010. I would say that Kenosha, Billings and Tampa are much more effective than NYC, Oakland, and Portland. The month-long encampments with all of the theft, drugs, rapes, filth and disease (which is all you see in the media) is turning-off the sympathetic vote in the suburbs.
The "tea party" isn't a thing in itself. Nor is it separate from the GOP. The right created the "tea party" as a means to the end of electing more Republicans. It's a tool, not a cause.
Having polite, come and go "protests" is not effective, unless the effect is to be ignored. The bagger "protests" got attention because they were publicized by Fox. Normally, the media doesn't pay any attention to protests. Showing up for a quick march around and a couple of speeches is a formula that is so well-worn over the last few decades that it's not worth noting.
But OWS has brought back an older mode of protesting. Ongoing, step on your toes and breathe in your face kind of protesting. The kind of protesting that proponents of women's suffrage engaged in. There is a huge amount of value in simply not going away. And in not doing what's expected.
(And, btw, you show yourself to be extremely gullible by so uncritically swallowing the crime and hygiene meme.)
I'm only part (most) way through your Occupy Oakand segment, and have to holler right now that any community demanding occupiers leave a location, must provide a location for them to go to, cyclically, eternally - four days here, three days there, or whatever, and permission to proudly march a single lane of public streets to make the transfer. History will show it is the best money the community ever spent (which, incidentally, would be about nothing). To be sure, we all know occupied parks when exited are pristine clean, just 'cause you gotta gently kick out the last folk who insist on polishing rocks. It's what the "occupation" is all about. Occupy Earth is really what this is about, and the United States should be a most significant player, but no tiny place on Earth is insignificant. Occupy Wall Street is about the survival of nature, and that humans, that Americans, not be the destroyer of all current higher-forms of habitation on Earth. The BEST thing I've done in the past month is to march the streets with AIM in Mpls to halt the Keystone pipeline. Well, and the geeky stuff I'm researching and publishing to other geeks daily, useful or probably not. It keeps ya busy. With all this research, TRMS is currently my closest connection to nature and humans. Gotta get back to my TRMS.
The tea party movement only partially succeeded as the congressional approval rating at under 10% will attest.
Although many such as myself have donated their time www.occupynews.net to help the occupy movement, I personally wish the occupy movement would focus on the home foreclosure movement and fighting for the right for americans to restructure their debts without being automatically placed into credit default first.
Even NewsMax agrees that the past decade has seen an assault on the middle class. You can thank the government and the federal reserve for handing over control of home mortgages to wall street and their investors about ten years ago, and then using their new found freed up time and resources to print up money and to go to war instead.
Dear Rachel:
Your showing the New York Police breaking up the OWS and their library - unfortunately, you didn't have footage of them breaking up the library, but it reminded me of the photos of the Nazi party thugs burning books in 1933. I believe that you need to show that footage of the Nazi goons burning the books. I feel that this movement is for real when those in power feel the need to destroy a library, which represents the essence of the first amendment.
Sincerely,
Dr. Reardon
The Nazis made a ceremony of it.
Maybe these OWS parties need sort of a holiday. I could suggest:
BASTILLE DAY
I think would/maybe in tune with their aims.
I think those OWS groups need to lighten up and celebrate a holiday.
I could suggest: BASTILLE DAY
It could be in line with their aims.