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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?
CNN’s State of the Union spent their time allowing Dick and Liz Cheney to rewrite the history of both 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq. Fox News and This Week were hyping up the latest corporate media creation, the revived presidential candidacy of Herman Cain. The media created the rebirth of Cain story after the candidate won a non-binding Florida straw poll, which became a story after the corporate media decided that the meaningless poll did in fact, mean something.
The other media generated story is the speculation over a potential Chris Christie 2012 presidential campaign. All the talk shows spent some time talking about Christie even though he isn’t even running. CBS’ Face The Nation trotted out John McCain to talk about Chris Christie, Libya, and DADT, and Meet The Press gave us a couple of governors and a roundtable discussing the 2012 election.
To summarize instead of covering Occupy Wall Street, the Sunday morning shows decided to cover two relics from the Bush administration (Dick and Liz Cheney), The failed Republican nominee from 2008 (John McCain), a current presidential candidate who has no chance of winning anything (Herman Cain), and a man who isn’t even a 2012 candidate, (Chris Christie). The corporate media deemed all of these people more worthy of airtime and discussion than Occupy Wall Street.
The media doing their best to make sure that the message of the 99% is not heard, but they are running out of excuses. More Americans are showing up every day to occupy Wall Street. The movement is not shrinking. It is growing. The corporate media can only keep up the deception for so long. Soon the protests will grow so large that even they can’t ignore them.
Currently most of the mainstream publicity about Occupy Wall Street centers on police brutality or protester arrests. MSNBC’s prime time lineup has started to take notice of the protests , but only Keith Olbermann’s Countdown has been providing nightly updates about the protests themselves. Occupy Wall Street has gone from no media coverage to minimal media coverage, but the mainstream media is not reporting the message behind the protests.
The beauty of Occupy Wall Street is that it doesn’t need television to spread the message. Thousands of Americans are spreading the word every day. Whether it is by social media or word of mouth, these protests are growing because those who have been lulled in a comatose state of dejection and despair since the crash of 2008 are being shaken away by thousands of Americans standing up together and saying no more.
Herman Cain and his irrelevant side show can only distract for so long. Millions of Americans who are unemployed and fighting for their survival could care less whether Chris Christie runs for president or declares himself a participant on a future season of The Biggest Loser. What the corporate Beltway media doesn’t get is the reality television show that is the race for the 2012 GOP nomination means nothing when you have no job and on the verge losing your home.
The Sunday morning talk shows illustrate that the media would rather cover the stories they create (Cain and Christie) than what is really going on in America.
The corporate media will continue to ignore the message of Occupy Wall Street. The 99% don’t exist to them, so anyone who believes in the message behind behind these protests must share it themselves.
The corporate media is part of the problem, and millions of voices speaking together will be the solution.
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18 Responses to The Invisible 99%: Sunday Morning Talk Shows Ignore Occupy Wall Street
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Ann
Oct. 2nd, 2011 at 4:37 pm
Well said. I think that people are hoping that it goes away, because they are worried that if they tap into the anger out there it might have dangerous results. It may be that their worries are not unfounded. Perhaps it’s best for OWS to grow in a slower, and more controlled manner, so they can prevent it from being hijacked by the wrong elements. Right now, it feels like someone has their finger in the dam, but how can this movement NOT gain ground, with the current economic system? Hopefully, we’ll see a flood of substantive, but positive action.
MSM may be obsolete, anyhow.
Bobfr
Oct. 2nd, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Our4thEstate Bobfr
#KOCHMAFIA + #FOXNEWSTAINERS + #TEABAGGOP = Destruction of America bit.ly/mR0aWO Time for a #99PercentSolution #PRESSON #OBAMA2012
Yes. It’s in_deed time for a #99PercentSolution.
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 2nd, 2011 at 5:52 pm
Bob Enjoy your tweets
Watcher
Oct. 2nd, 2011 at 7:40 pm
President Obama warned all the banks, wallstreet and financial institutions, that he is all that stands between them and the torches and pitch forks, in 2009. They and their large number of bought and owned politicians, have chosen to ignore that warning. President Obama and a very few honest pols tried to fix things, create jobs, protect SS, MEDICARE/MEDICAID, and to provide for our health care.
But the people sat back on our laurels, the rethugLIEcans with the corporate funded tea party racist dupes, and lots of corporate cash, undercut the efforts of President Obama and the few honest pols. They were left alone to fight the repub and corporate lies and liars and the MSM spins.
Eventually, the people believed the blatant lies and turned on the president, further eroding his ability to get things done for “we the people.” But now; due to how bad things are, the people are finally marching on those who have truly ruined our country. Hence the march on wallstreet. We the people, are going to take our country back. And the MSM had better start acting like real news reporters again, or the eventual torches and pitch forks will be turned on them too.
whispy
Oct. 16th, 2011 at 2:34 am
Hmmm…this little tidbit might be of *some* importance, but I’m sure many will sweep it under the rug as “their guy” just can do NO wrong:
“Despite his rhetorical attacks on Wall Street, a study by the Sunlight Foundation’s Influence Project shows that President Barack Obama has received more money from Wall Street than any other politician over the past 20 years, including former President George W. Bush.
In 2008, Wall Street’s largesse accounted for 20 percent of Obama’s total take, according to Reuters.
When asked by The Daily Caller to comment about President Obama’s credibility when it comes to criticizing Wall Street, the White House declined to reply.”
Obama’s got the Marxist thing down for sure, open your eyes. He makes it *appear* like he’s all for the people but in the end he’s only out for himself, raking it all in from his “chosen ones” that were lucky enough to be in his inner circle. What an act, and alot of people fall for it hook line and sinker. Government has NO business in business. They need to stay of it and stop the bailouts and campaign contributions!
buckeyewill
Oct. 2nd, 2011 at 8:26 pm
Looks like this revolution is not televised.
Shades of Gil Scott- Heron.
coachjdc
Oct. 2nd, 2011 at 8:40 pm
The revolution WILL NOT be televised, but it WILL BE TWEETED!
Could someone go back and catalog the volume of coverage devoted to various tea party events that drew 200 people?
Pooper
Oct. 2nd, 2011 at 9:04 pm
Who cares if its not televised. Facebook and social media is the news, all that crap on TV needs to be torn down. I am reading this from Canada, don’t worry, we see you… I just can’t afford the plane ticket to NY.
Maple
Oct. 2nd, 2011 at 11:56 pm
I just heard that the protest is spreading throughout the globe, and coming to Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver in a couple of weeks.
boil
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 10:24 am
i saw more coverage of the kids in the streets on red chinese CCTV than i saw on any multinational owned cable or network….
MRS. CHOCTAW
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 10:47 am
Our media channels are not covering it because the government gained control over them after 911 when GW Bush bombed an unarmed nation in the poor sections and our news media had news reels of it and the poor people screaming he was killing them, they had nothing, they were poor. The woman’s children had been BLOWN UP BY BUSH! They lived in the poor area,didn’t even have windows, no running water and were being blown up. Bush took the news clips from the news people, a woman working for them had the evidence but was detained in jail until she handed over the recorded documentation of what Bush had done. To this day, the news doesn’t cover things the president and government doesn’t want them to. Now, tell me, when freedom of the press, freedom of privacy, freedom to expression, freedom of speech, freedom in the constitution does not apply any longer, what is our nation? We are controlled by communist party. We have no true freedom anymore, neither does the press. They are being bullied by the government and big wigs that are truly making our goavenment their puppet. They just haven’t taken our fighting spirit from us and … that just isn’t going to happen. We will not go quietly into the night, we will not go down without a FIGHT!
MRS. CHOCTAW
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 10:52 am
NY Police Delanie, however your name is spelled, you are working for the mafia aren’t you? The big companies and the corrupt governement. It shows on your face, in your voice. You have betrayed your country and countryment with your police department holding Americans as hostiges in the quiet of the subways, without food or water! LET THEM GO! You have no right to starve these people, deprive them of human necessities. Do you want all of us up there? You are going to need a LOT Of room fella.
Stop abusing those people, they have the RIGHT to assemble, the right to FREEDOM OF SPEECH! You will NOT take our freedom from us!
Angel
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 6:35 pm
I have thoroughly given up on the conventional-wisdom-confirming, self-congratulating, false-equivalence-spouting, navel-gazing orgy of mental masturbation that is Sunday morning talk. They all rot.
Hank Wilkinson
Oct. 6th, 2011 at 10:15 am
Up, Chris Haynes, MSNBC, covered the occupy Wall Street story.
Rob
Oct. 15th, 2011 at 5:40 pm
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