Occupy Oakland, Anarchists, The Main Street Media, And The Facts... Flag Burning Et Al... [View all]

[WillyT]

The photo almost everybody saw.



The photo almost nobody saw.

(And if you don't know, this female occupier is desperatley trying to talk them OUT of burning the flag.)

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What happens when your typical, mainstream news consumer hears little description of how Oakland PD, in violation of its own operating procedures (while under threat of a federal takeover because of excessive force), enters into a war of abandon with an overwhelmingly peaceful movement -- not to mention, the independent media, as well? And then, what happens on-top-of-that when, de-emphasizing even the angry mayor's distinction that a "radical, violent splinter-group" chose to attack City Hall, you get a culturally incendiary and profoundly prejudicial photo like this leading off national stories far-and-wide showing one of the bad boys holding up a little Occupy sign while headlines allude to -- and the captions identify them as -- regular Occupiers? I guess it's hard to conclude anything other than the fact that the movement -- in an act that makes no sense -- must have decided to torch itself.

Here's just a subset from a larger sample of photo leads from the events of the weekend:

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Much More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-shaw/reading-the-pictures-occu_2_b_1241804.html