Category Archives: protest

Occupy Oakland Crackdown: Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets…and Cats

Posted on 10/26/2011 by Peter Hart

Last night by many reports the police crackdown on the Occupy Oakland encampment was severe: Tear gas and flash-bang grenades were used to disperse a crowd trying to retake the park. Reading about the events in the nation's capital, though, … Continue reading →

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Richard Cohen: OWS Isn't Anti-Semitic–Just Clueless, Repugnant

Posted on 10/25/2011 by Peter Hart

Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen (10/24/11), tipped off by at least one of his Post colleagues, decided to pay a visit to Liberty Plaza to see the festival of anti-Semitism firsthand. Lo and behold, he found none: Reckless Jew that … Continue reading →

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Attention Fox News, Reuters: Mitt Romney Is Funding OWS!

Posted on 10/18/2011 by Peter Hart

The New York Times has an interesting profile today (10/18/11) of a retired Wall Street trader named Robert Halper who, it turns out, made an early donation to Adbusters to help with the Occupy Wall Street movement: Mr. Halper, who … Continue reading →

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Fox Coverage of OWS: Now Even Beckier!

Posted on 10/17/2011 by Peter Hart

Fox's coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement has often looked and sounded like Glenn Beck were still working there. On Friday's broadcast of the O'Reilly Factor (10/14/11), Beck was there to show how wild conspiracy-mongering is done: O'REILLY: What's … Continue reading →

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Hundreds of Worldwide Occupy Protests Occupy One Inch of Front Page

Posted on 10/17/2011 by Peter Hart

Squint or you'll miss it–the Sunday front page of the Washington Post: In case you're having trouble finding it, it's in the lower right-hand corner: a blurb approximately one column inch long, directing people to page A20 to find news … Continue reading →

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Time: Public Oddly Unfazed by Bongo Drums

Posted on 10/14/2011 by Peter Hart

The new Time poll that found the public more favorably inclined towards Occupy Wall Street protesters than the Tea Party has been making the rounds. From the magazine's write-up of the poll: A new Time/ABT SRBI poll finds 54 percent … Continue reading →

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USA Today: Finally People Are Protesting Wall Street!

Posted on 10/12/2011 by Peter Hart

I think people are genuinely surprised by the corporate media's shift on Occupy Wall Street: Things went from apathy, scorn and derision to front-page news rather quickly. USA Today's editorial today (10/12/11) is headlined "Five Good Reasons Why Wall Street … Continue reading →

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David Gregory: Demonizing Banks Is Dangerous

Posted on 10/11/2011 by Peter Hart

NBC Meet the Press host David Gregory, interviewing Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Sunday (10/10/11): GREGORY: What's going on in the streets of Occupy Wall Street? EMANUEL: Yeah. GREGORY: Complaining about the unfairness, railing against Wall Street. The president has … Continue reading →

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ABC Interviews OWS Activist–and Media Critic

Posted on 10/11/2011 by Peter Hart

ABC's This Week (10/10/11) had a normally tilted panel on Sunday talking about, among other things, Occupy Wall Street. The show had three different types of conservatives (former Bush adviser Matthew Dowd, fixture George Will and columnist Peggy Noonan) along … Continue reading →

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David Brooks Gets Occupy Wall Street and Al-Qaeda in Same Sentence

Posted on 10/11/2011 by Peter Hart

New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote a tedious column today (10/11/11) about how the real radicals are the centrists, not the Wall Street occupiers. (Read Dean Baker to see what Brooks is getting wrong.) But this jumped out at … Continue reading →

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Is Glenn Beck Back at Fox News Channel?

Posted on 10/07/2011 by Peter Hart

It sounded like it, but it was just Bill O'Reilly channeling Beck's Soros/MoveOn/Big Labor paranoia, minus the chalkboard: On Wednesday in New York City, there was another far-left demonstration as a bunch of people marched on Wall Street. Why? We … Continue reading →

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Erin Burnett Hears the Critics–But Still Misses the Point

Posted on 10/05/2011 by Peter Hart

Last night (10/4/11) CNN host Erin Burnett noted that her fact check of the Occupy Wall Street protests had drawn some criticism. But she still doesn't seem to get it. "Well, our story got noted documentarian Michael Moore, who watched … Continue reading →

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NYT Biz Writer Checks Out Occupy Wall Street–Based on CEO's Worries

Posted on 10/04/2011 by Peter Hart

New York Times business writer Andrew Ross Sorkin has been criticized for being too chummy with the Wall Street tycoons he's supposed to be covering. Today he has a piece in the Times (10/4/11) about Occupy Wall Street–which he's decided … Continue reading →

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Action Alert: Factchecking CNN's Occupy Wall Street Factcheck

Posted on 10/04/2011 by Jim Naureckas

CNN's newest show–OutFront, featuring Erin Burnett–did a "factcheck" of the protest in Lower Manhattan that was long on attitude and short on accuracy. If you'd like the network to take another look, see FAIR's latest Action Alert. Please leave copies … Continue reading →

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