Monday, October 3, 2011

The Invisible 99%: Sunday Morning Talk Shows Ignore Occupy Wall Street

The Invisible 99%: Sunday Morning Talk Shows Ignore Occupy Wall Street: "The five Sunday morning talk shows on CBS, Fox, CNN, NBC, and ABC devoted zero segments with zero guests to Occupy Wall Street today. To the media inside the Beltway, the 99% do not exist.

A day after over 700 protesters were arrested during a march over the Brooklyn Bridge, the five network Sunday morning news shows virtually ignored the story. The only program that the arrests were even mentioned on was ABC’s This Week, “More than 700 demonstrators protesting corporate greed, among other issues, were arrested last night on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. The grassroots movement has swamped Wall Street for more than two weeks now.”

What was more important than thousands of Americans taking to the street to protest greed and corruption?..."

4 comments:

MotivatedinOhio said...

They aren't going away.  This will just grow.

Underground Politics said...

Which I'm all for!

MotivatedinOhio said...

Me too.  Are they going to be on the wrong side of history again?

Underground Politics said...

I'm sure we'll be finding out soon enough.