Occupy Oakland Versus The City and The Media

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Occupy Oakland Versus The City and The Media

Zennie Abraham

Executive Producer, Host: The Blog Report With Zennie62

...The whole move toward eviction seems to have been started by the selfishness of certain specific San Francisco Bay Area Media types, and perhaps with a healthy assist from Breitbart TV.

If you know that name, Breitbart TV is part of the web based media effort owned by rag tag conservative bad boy Andrew Breitbart, who put out the Hollyfield story. (Which I’m not sure would be a story for Andrew had Amy been black instead of white.)

Breitbart TV has made numerous YouTube videos under different spam channels to communicate the idea that there’s nothing but bad stuff going on at Occupy Oakland – especially with respect to the media.

Take these videos reporting on the alleged harassment of reporters, below. Note that they’re based on the news telecast of local stations, specifically ABC Channel 7 and CBS Channel 5 in San Francisco and Channel 2 News in Oakland:


http://blog.sfgate.com/abraham/2011/10/24/occupy-oaklan... /




Very good read. I am heartened to see a journalist actually employing his constitutionally endowed rights and reporting on these shenanigans. No wonder we haven't seen much in the Bay Area media for almost a week. I knew these occupations had not gone away. I now see the deceptive tactics by the reactionary conservative blogosphere, and its apparent success in duping the MSM, who unfortunalely appears to be willing to bend over and hand them the vaseline.

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"...If some members of Occupy Oakland / Occupy Wall Street did not want to be filmed up close, then what the media should do is walk to a distance and film them from that point, or embed themselves, or pay someone in the encampment to make videos for them.

But the way the media basically has ratted on Occupy Oakland because it didn’t get what it wanted is in the form of access just plain shameful, and marks a new low in journalism.

Again, I’m a blogger, not a journalist. I use a set of rules that are more logical, effective, and non-evasive, and still gain what I seek.

There’s no reason the San Francisco Bay Area media could not do the same, and leave Andrew Brietbart out of the equation in the process.

http://blog.sfgate.com/abraham/2011/10/24/occupy-oakland-versus-the-city-and-the-media/



You go, Zennie





And this is the same Breitbart:


Saradise Lost - Book 5 - Chapter 45: Breitbart and Palin Roundly Booed in Madison Wisconsin


As part of the Tea Party tax weekend activities, Sarah Palin spoke near the capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin. The crowd was estimated to be about 6,000 to 7,000, but from reports coming in, the Tea Partiers may have been handily outnumbered by protesters:...

...Here's a local, Madison report:


The tea party supporters were lined along the sidewalk in front of the podium, surrounded by small barriers, perhaps to keep the sounds of counter protesters out. Several thousand counter-protesters surrounded them, chanting "Recall Walker," blowing whistles and horns, beating drums and sometimes booing the speakers.

Even though they used a sound system, it was hard to hear everything the speakers were saying over the counter-chants. The acoustics were such that you could hear the speakers better from afar than you could up close.

Only the shrill Vicki Mckenna, talk show host WIBA, seemed to be able to cut through the chanting, when she told them: "Shut up." The crowd didn't listen. Andrew Breitbart was similarly annoyed and told the crowd, "you've been so rude, go to hell. You're trying to divide America...


http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/2011/04/saradise-lost-book-5-chapter-45.html