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In reply to the discussion: Let's Not Forget OWS... [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)I tend to see the media's role as similar to the 1965 civil rights movement, it just happened faster. Until the media nationalized those famous images it was limited to the Deep South.
In some ways it s quite organic how that happens. The problem is that mrs Hathaway is denying any effect, or the role of the local and national media on this. It will be three years before any good analysis of this interaction will happen, and tat has to do with how academic research happens. I can tell you this, emerging consensus is that occupy did play an important role in getting the discussion going. Where divisions are starting to emerge is in keeping it going. Some of it is who is writing what...some of it is occupy itself. It is hard to do research with a moving target.