MORE OWS PHOTOS - New York Times: A News Story Is Growing With ‘Occupy’ Protests

[Hissyspit]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/us/occupy-wall-street-protests-a-growing-news-story.html?_r=1&smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/-millionaires-march-in-manhattan-1318363807-slideshow/protestors-affiliated-occupy-wall-street-protests-march-past-photo-185122975.html

A News Story Is Growing With ‘Occupy’ Protests
By BRIAN STELTER
Published: October 12, 2011

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Splashed across the front page of the local newspaper here on Tuesday was the story of a 24-year-old Occupy protester named Keith Cuesta. He was not in New York, where some have been living in a park near Wall Street for nearly four weeks, but about 1,000 miles away in Tampa, where a small group of self-described “99 percenters” have decided to camp out in solidarity.

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As the Occupy Wall Street message of representing 99 percent of Americans has spread across the country, news media coverage of the Occupy movement has spread, too, to the front pages of newspapers and the tops of television newscasts. Coverage of the movement last week was, for the first time, quantitatively equivalent to early coverage of the Tea Party movement in early 2009, according to data released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center.

The data confirms an anecdotal sense that the movement, which slowly gained speed last month, entered the nation’s collective consciousness for the first time last week, when President Obama was asked about it at a news conference and when national television news programs were first anchored from the Wall Street protest site.

In the first full week of October, according to Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, the protests occupied 7 percent of the nation’s collective news coverage, up from 2 percent in the last week of September. Before then, the coverage was so modest as to be undetectable by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, which surveys 52 news outlets each week to produce a weekly study of news coverage.

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Protesters marched on Park Avenue on the Upper East Side in New York City. Credit: Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times




Don Anderson, left, a protester from Oregon, prayed as United States Capitol police carried off a demonstrator in the Senate’s Hart Office Building in Washington. Credit: Stephen Crowley/The New York Times




In Boston on Monday night, more than 100 protesters were arrested when the group expanded from its previous area in the center of Dewey Square to a nearby part of the Rose Kennedy Greenway. Dave Trauterman, 20, of Raynham, Mass., tied the window flaps of his tent pitched in Dewey Square. Credit: Gretchen Ertl for The New York Times




The police surrounded protesters crossing the street outside the Bank of America in Chicago. Credit: Peter Wynn Thompson for The New York Times




Newcomers like Darrel Egemo, a 75-year-old former money manager, are part of this new ferment. “I decided they needed one person in a neck-tie and sport coat,” Mr. Egemo said, looking dapper as he waved a sign at motorists in Denver. Credit: Matt Nager for The New York Times




Protesters painted a sign in Lincoln Park in Denver. Credit: Matt Nager for The New York Times




Shani Smith was arrested by the Chicago Police Department after participating in a sit-in during a protest outside the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Chicago. Credit: Peter Wynn Thompson for The New York Times




A protester cheered next to garbage from a foreclosed home dumped outside of Bank of America in Chicago. Credit: Peter Wynn Thompson for The New York Times




The Occupy Los Angeles camp grew into its second week in front of City Hall. Credit: Monica Almeida/The New York Times




In Washington, disparate groups of protesters with overlapping agendas — including pacifism, politics and poverty — have been demonstrating for several days. The Capitol Police carried off an Occupy D.C. demonstrator in the Senate’s Hart Office Building. Credit: Stephen Crowley/The New York Times




"Occupy Chicago" protests started Monday near the Federal Reserve Bank and Chicago Board of Trade. Credit: Charles Rex Arbogast/Associated Press




In New York, police arrested several protesters on the sidewalk outside Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan. Credit: Damon Winter/ The New York Times




Darrell Willis wears a "99%" button -- signifying "the rest of America" suffering in the economic downturn -- at the Occupy Chicago protest. Credit: Charles Rex Arbogast/Associated Press




Commuters walked past demonstrators in Boston's financial district on Monday. Credit: Josh Reynolds/Associated Press




From Los Angeles to Portland, Maine, protesters took to the streets in a show of anger against perceived corporate greed. Credit: Monica Almeida/The New York Times




The Occupy Wall Street protests started on Sept. 17 with a few dozen demonstrators who tried to pitch tents in front of the New York Stock Exchange.Credit: Damon Winter/The New York Times




Since then, hundreds have set up camp in a park nearby and have become increasingly organized, lining up medical aid and legal help and printing their own newspaper, the Occupied Wall Street Journal. Credit: Damon Winter/ The New York Times




Members of the Occupy Wall Street movement hold signs aloft as they protest on 5th Avenue while marching through the upper east side of New York October 11, 2011. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES - Tags: CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS)




Members of the Occupy Wall St movement protest on 5th Avenue while marching through the upper east side of New York October 11, 2011. Demonstrators taking part in the Occupy Wall St have staged demonstrations protesting income inequality for several weeks while camping in Zuccotti Park. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS DISASTER)




A member of the Occupy Wall St movement holds a sign aloft while protesting on 5th Avenue during a march through the upper east side of New York October 11, 2011. Demonstrators taking part in the Occupy Wall St have staged demonstrations protesting income inequality for several weeks while camping in Zuccotti Park. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)




Protestors affiliated with the "Occupy Wall Street" protests march past a Valentino store on East 65th Street in New York, on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011. The crowd marched through out the Upper East Side neighborhood, protesting outside the homes of various billionaires and bank owners. (AP Photo/Andrew Burton)




Members of the Occupy Wall Street movement hold signs aloft as they protest on 5th Avenue while marching through the upper east side of New York October 11, 2011. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES - Tags: CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)




A sticker on a tent parodied a warning sign often seen near the border for illegal migrants crossing the road, near City Hall in Los Angeles. Credit: Monica Almeida/The New York Times

[pnorman]

1. K & R x3!!!

n/t

[malaise]

2. Most excellent

Rec

[vets74]

11. Darrel Egemo is perfect: INTEGRITY - SOLD SHORT BY GREED. This is an anti-crime protest.

The thieves stole $7-trillion dollars.

That's what shattered the economy.

That's what has the Productive Capitalism companies running scared... not generating enough new jobs.

[KurtNYC]

21. 7% is huge

[vets74]

23. That is $7-trillion. With total valuation for the U.S. at $55-trillion.

7 divided by 55 is 13%.

Yeah, not what you wanted to hear....

Helluva smash-and-grab.

[joshcryer]

3. 4th rec. Need one more!

Wonderful pics, thanks for making these posts Hissyspit, you and dixygirl (I believe is her nick, sorry) rock for these!

[me b zola]

4. K&R

:thumbsup:

[tavalon]

5. Gee, they ignored it when it was just protests,

now that's it's a movement, they call them protests. Ah, the media, so willfully stupid, bless their hearts.

[Hissyspit]

6. I'm a former news reporter. The ignorance of the first day of the protest was shameful, indefensible

and very, very telling.

I knew this was coming for two months. And I knew it was news from Day One. Even if it had petered out, it still should have been reported on nationally.

[tavalon]

8. Corporate Masters chose how stupid a reporter is these days

If the reporter wants to remain a "news" reporter, the reporter reports what they are supposed to report. It used to just be Faux "News" but it has become epidemic or worse endemic. Luckily, this movement made it onto the internet and got it's legs that way. The cat was out of the bag before they could stop it, so they had to report on it or they would have become the news. At least in the USSR, everyone knew the "news" was propaganda. Scarily, plenty of people in America are not aware that news isn't news anymore, unless it's corporate approved bullshit. Scary, really.

I think I might have hung out with you at a DC march in 2004. It was amazing to watch the media change close to a million people into "a few thousand". It was my first experience with being disappeared by the media. Not my last, unfortunately. I'm loving that the old media is being forced by the new media to cover this, even if they are acting like they have no idea what it's about.

[Hissyspit]

16. Yes, the coverage at the beginning of the war. Almost nothing of any depth questioning.

It actually was an astounding thing to see, in a very negative way.

[joshcryer]

9. Took a damn month to get recognition. They aren't going anywhere. OWS is here to stay.

Thanks again for the post!

[Tanelorn]

7. Still getting lots of press in Australia

Thanks for the pics

[Skittles]

10. AUSSIES ARE AWESOME

yes INDEED

[marions ghost]

12. glad to hear

:thumbsup:

[Laelth]

13. k&r for exposure. Thanks for the pics. n/t

-Laelth

[Scurrilous]

14. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Fire Walk With Me]

15. Great thread, thank you! K&R!

[Uncle Joe]

17. These are excellent pics.

Thanks for the thread, Hissyspit.:thumbsup:

[aquart]

18. I want the button.

[tallahasseedem]

19. These pictures are inspiring...

this movement is amazing!

[Pryderi]

20. Dirty, Smelly WWII Hippie Vet.

[Maraya1969]

22. I saw a picture in a magazine of a $13,000 handbag recently!

There are houses selling for less than that in this economy. Talk about income disparity!

[vets74]

24. $39,000, honey.

The twig sisters and their alligator bag.

[Chimichurri]

25. I want that sticker!