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In reply to the discussion: So tell me, ...what did this guy do to deserve it? [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)with any real interest in actual news even watches the MSM propaganda anymore. Even Hillary Clinton had to admit that they have become irrelevant compared to the sources now available to people around the world. RT's and Al Jazeera's coverage of OWS was actual reporting. But if you are getting your news from the US Media, then I perfectly understand why you so misunderstand what this movement is, is about, and where it is going.
OWS organzers of course anticipated this, they prepared for it by creating their own media. That is why the MSM has failed so spectacularly to discredit the movement and they sure tried as expected, to do that.
Independent and foreign media however are where most people get their news now. The US media is rated #47 on the World Free Press scale, making not worth watching. Young people especially, do not watch the MSM which is they are so much more informed.
OWS is a global movement, it did not start in the US. In fact, we were late to the game.
I see now why you know so little about the movement. Seriously, the MSM tried to ignore the movement in the beginning, that was a GOOD thing. Because we all knew what they would do if they covered it. But other media did not ignore, so the MSM realized they had made a strategic mistake, assuming it would not last, when in fact it spread across the country, as it had already in Europe and other parts of the world.
When they did decide to cover it, it was as expected, attempt to discredit it. That failed miserable as OWS's own media was way ahead of them. Polls in NYC eg, showed that over 80% of respondents were NOT influenced by the MSM's smears, but supported the right of the protesters to be in Zuccotti Park. That is why Bloomberg and his 'army' the NYPD, could not shut it down immediately.
The MSM is dying. Propaganda doesn't work the way it used to. It is boring, recycling the same old talking heads on the Sunday Programs, using the same old tactics to smear anything that threatens Wall Street.
The Poster Girl for the attempted destruction of OWS on CNN, sent to Zuccotti Park to help end this movement, was basically destroyed because she LIED, and OWS's own media was easily able to expose her agenda. Her ratings now are probably less than a good OP on an internet forum can get.
I will be back later to respond to your other posts. We have company and I have some cooking to do.