Recent polls put Occupy movement support among the general public in the 43-46% range. The Tea Party never got past the low 20s. Yet the media seems to be treating this as a "fringe" movement. Really?
Your thoughts?
Here is some perspective on how the issues are polling...
http://www.pollingreport.com/politics.htm
I've watched this with great interest. Seems to have the crony capitalists and their paid sympathetic politicians scared shitless.
There are blogs and newspaper articles that are on target, but way too many look for the interview and angles supporting their agenda to marginalize.
This Huffington Post article regarding Erin Burnett's coverage is interesting:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/occupy-wall-street-erin-burnett_n_998494.html
Quote:
"I'd bet that these two CNN personalities...would genuinely find the suggestion that they are not objective to be baffling and offensive. That's because their world begins and ends with Jamie Dimon, Citigroup executives, and Columbus Circle corporate galas. To them, Truth is what is found in that world and nothing else. When someone like Kosik sneers at concerns over mass joblessness, hopeless debt, foreclosures, and oligarchical control of the political process, she's not being a conscious propagandist; she's just being honest. Those problems don't exist in their world except as abstractions."
Ordinary people's problems apparently do not make good news and besides you don't report to make yourself look bad. Large corporations probably own the media outlets trying to discredit OWS.
Politicians acting like they can't figure out what's wrong or trying to depict these people as Un-American or lazy or criminals just piss me off. I'm writing to my supposed representatives to let them know that if they can't or won't figure it out that I'll do what I can to see that they don't keep their jobs...
I think it's great. We NEED a revolution. We NEED a change and for once it's AWESOME to see people stand up and try to make a difference. I've been waiting for the REAL America to wake up and say they've had enough of the bullshit.