Browse the pieces of the PBS Frontline Website on an episode they did on, "Why America Hates the Press." Make sure you read the Fallows article (linked) for discussion and a possible quiz.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/press/
The Atlantic blog commented on how things have stayed the same, or have gotten worse since the article was first printed.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/06/from-the-archives-why-we-hate-the-media/240854/
Also, after two weeks some mainstream media is covering the Occupy Wall St. protesters in New York City. Is this a story that should be covered or "gatekept" away from the mainstream public? Thanks to Danielle L. for sending along sever pictures from Flickr another new social media part of the Youdia.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/03/national/main20114601.shtml
Danielle's favorite pic
As our social media correspondent, she reports:
"They're also fairly organized, and it's interesting that they have communal kitchens and even "libraries". "
Occupy Wall St. pic 2
Also check out the interesting video and information on the organizing group's website:
http://occupywallst.org/
The video where the kid asks people -- potesters and police -- to state why they are there in one word is interesting.
Compare this to Tea Con 2011, held in Chicago over the weekend.
How would you define Occupy Wall St. and Tea Con, are they grassroots movements, astro-turf movements or something entirely different? This are also examples of citizens practicing political efficacy.
6 comments:
From Salon.com:
It’s official: Occupy Wall Street has now become so large that the message makers of the conservative movement have set their sights on the growing protest movement.
Out of some combination of contempt and opportunism, Fox News along with right-wing pundits and magazine writers are calling out Occupy Wall Street as stupid, juvenile, and dangerous.
The strain of deep contempt is best expressed in this column by National Review editor Rich Lowry, titled “The Left’s Pathetic Tea Party”:
Occupy Wall Street is not a real answer. It is both more self-involved and more ambitious than the Tea Party. It represents an ill-defined, free-floating radicalism. Its fuzzy endpoint is a “revolution” no one can precisely describe, but the thrust of which is overturning our system of capitalism as we know it. If elected Democrats dare associate their sagging party with this project, they need immediately to consult their nearest psychiatrist and political consultant, in that order.
I think it is unfair to say that the media is gatekeeping and blocking the Occupy movement from the news. There is much evidence to point towards the contrary, in fact. True, at first the media didn't cover it that much, but that is because there are tons of protests every year of the similar size. However, now that it has persisted the media is giving it a fair share of recognition. How can I say this? Google has a feature known as Trends which allows you to see the search volume index and news reference volume of different terms. Search volume is how much the people are searching for something online, news reference is how many news articles have been written about that something. This is the graph comparing "Occupy Wall Street" and "Tea Party" for the past month:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=occupy+wall+street%2C+tea+party&ctab=0&geo=us&date=mtd&sort=0
As we can see, the Occupy movement overtook the Tea Party in searches fairly quickly and as of October has surpassed the Tea Party in terms of news media coverage (which is the bottom graph). Not bad for a brand new movement, and it is far more coverage than the Tea Party got when it burst onto the scenes back in 09.
You can also compare it to some of the GOP frontrunners and the results are similar:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=occupy+wall+street%2C+ron+paul%2C+mitt+romney%2C+rick+perry%2C+herman+cain&ctab=0&geo=us&date=mtd&sort=0
The Occupy movement has had more media coverage over the past week or so than any of the GOP frontrunners (poor Ron Paul comes in behind the rest of the GOP despite his straw poll successes). So really, any way we look at it, the media as a whole is certainly not gatekeeping the Occupy movement.
It's funny that the Republicans now decided to call the Occupy Wall Street movement "stupid, juvenile, and dangerous" even though that is what the Tea Party's opposition called the Tea Party when it started in 2008.
No political movement of great significance is ever purely grassroots: the Koch (how do you pronounce?) brothers are one of the biggest donors of the movement (not sure why - their business practices are a bit un-American, excusing the cliche: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/76441616/
On the other side, OWS is supported by George Soros.
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