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Roy Rolling Donating Member (762 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-09-11 10:20 AM
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69. here's what is difficult to understand
Edited on Fri Dec-09-11 10:39 AM by Roy Rolling
You nor anyone cannot control what the media says about OWS. How much corporate exploitation has been stopped on the Fox News Network? Or any network....they have made millions covering the OWS movement. This meaningless symbolic act does not mean OWS is not exploited by corporate media at all. You are attaching a meaning that is not a cause and effect, is is simply one small event---while the OWS is written about, filmed, and talked about (exploited) thousands of times a day---you nor anyone has not stopped that.

If, however, the episode was favorable to the OWS then shutting it down caused OWS to miss an opportunity to tell their story---information is not just exchanged via news shows anymore.

My point is that to shut down production without knowing is a knee-jerk and ineffective solution. OWS is seeking effective solutions for change, not solutions that simply piss people off. That is what they are fighting against.

It is the difference between destroying an asset or taking that asset and using it for the good purposes of OWS.

Again, I say, I don't know what the episode is about---I have not ever watched even ONE episode of this despicable show. I'm just saying that to act without knowing is bad policy and will create negative media exploitation as the news media portrays the act negatively---which is an almost 100% certainty.
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