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In reply to the discussion: Let's Not Forget OWS... [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)there, but did not cover the movement. We were all aware of their presence and glad they were not covering it. When they did begin to cover it, even bringing their news helicopters, it was obvious that they were being ordered what to cover and what not to cover.
Eg, we, those of us covering it through Social Media, following the livestreams etc, noticed a pattern. When the media was present covering huge rallies, such as in Oakland eg, and even following their streams, suddenly they would stop coverage, right before the Militarized Police forces would move in. At first we thought they were having problems, but found out later they were told to leave so as not to film the brutality of the police. They complied.
But again, it didn't matter as OWS had its own media and captured most of the police brutality on film themselves and put it all up on Utube as quickly as possible. This led to the police trying to get laws past forbidding filming them. And many cops were heard saying how the 'hated Utube'. Young people don't watch the MSM for news, they use the social media.
I am not really blaming reporters, they obviously feared the wrath of the Government forces and some who tried to do their job were themselves often beaten and arrested and are currently joining OWS activists in major lawsuits against NYC and other PDs.
The social media coverage however was far from 'light'. That is where I and most people still get news from OWS activities and they have been very busy. That is where the best uncensored coverage always was.
Live streamers documented the police brutality, as they were instructed to do by the Legal Organizations, the National Lawyers Guild, eg, before the movement started. A lot of training took place before Sept 17th which proved invaluable later. Those videos of every arrest eg, have forced the dismissal of most of the false arrests that took place.
There is no shortage of news about OWS through the livestreamers some of whom have become quite famous over the past year, and through the hundreds of blogs, FB pages, Twitter etc. It's a very active movement across the globe.