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Originally Posted by Coach Pants
The reality is the socialists are the ones getting the majority of airtime on pmsnbc, cnn, cbs and abc. Poll most Americans and a staggering percentage will say Michael Moore is the figurehead of OWS.
There will be no real change until the big networks and cable news outlets are forced to report riots and martial law. Free press my as.s.
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I wish we had more socialists in our government. And you are right, unfortunately, about Michael Moore, and martial law.
The mainstream media is being successfully bypassed. The only reason we know so much about Occupy WS, police brutality, etc. is exactly the reason we know what really happened in the Arab Spring: citizen journalism and the internet.
The pepper-spray Oakland incident was completely covered up and lied about by the Berkeley Campus Police - but by the time the Chief had hit the evening news lying that the police were "afraid" of the protesters and "had" to pepper spray in self-defense that afternoon, multiple citizen journalism videos had already hit YouTube and UStream and the Occupy Websites,
showing the blatant lie.
The powers that be are very worried about the freedom of the internet - they are trying, now, to take that away. We know that the internet was deliberately cut off during the Arab Spring.
The night of the huge march across the Brooklyn Bridge in NY, internet access and cell access from Zuccotti went down for 2 hours at about 10:30pm. Overuse of the network, or deliberate? We don't know.