Whats really going on with US news outlets and OWS?

[neoconn]

This really boggles the mind when the US news does not report the news of the masses. People are protesting in every major city in the USA. Some are only a handful while others are 1000's strong. The coverage has been dismal at the least. I seen 0 (ZERO) coverage of the arrest of the veterans in Boston. I got 100% of my information via twitter. How can this be? Now that THE WORLD is starting to participate in the Occupy Movement how will the US news ignore this. When the people of Arab descent took to the streets, It was hailed as the people taking destiny and made big news. Now when we stand up for ourselves at home and we are ignored. And to add insult to injury, the republicans dismiss the movement as "lazy" "greedy" "entitlement stricken youngsters" with no merit to the messages. Sorry... I am digressing .......

If you look at foreign news coverage of the OWS movement, it has been framed in the proper terms such as "Anger at greed goes global" or "Americans unite over corporate greed" Why does it take foreign news to report major social events in the USA?

When will this be front news coverage? Has the corp machine hijacked the news? Can somebody shed some light on me cause I plainly don't get it..

[HipChick]

1. I gave up on US news media a long time ago..

[icnorth]

2. The media IS the CORPORATE machine. n/t

[roamer65]

3. Welcome to the American version of PRAVDA.

Censorship through omission.

We are not all that different from the old Soviet Union after all.

[neoconn]

6. Seems to be...

I remember speaking with a girl from Russia about 10 or 15 years ago on the subject of the ole Soviet/USA cold war. (It was online) I told her how we (Our Govt and most Americans) was scared of the USSR shooting nukes at us and the Soviet was trying to influence our hemisphere. She responded with that's how her people felt about the USA.

[sabrina 1]

4. Lol, I am glad they are not covering it. They are Corporate

owned and are part of what has to be fixed. The only kind of coverage they have done, has mostly been to try to undermine it, but they failed as the huge success it has had in just a month, proves.

Their lies and distortions are constantly being exposed, such as when CNN sent one their 'reporters' down to the park where she did a Fox imitation in an interview but neglected to tell the public that she used to work for Goldman Sachs and is currently engaged to a CEO of Citibank. She was exposed by 'the people' as a Wall St. schill disguised as a 'reporter'.

No one needs them anymore. Watch the foreign news coverage, which even works on the weekends, like RT which has had fantastic coverage of todays Global Occupy protests today. I never watch them anymore. And they have shown that they are totally irrevelant. Their job was to ignore it and hope it would go away. That didn't work, so they tried mocking, instead THEY were mocked. And the movement kept growing and growing without them.

They USED to be able to control stuff like this, as they did by not covering the Anti-War demonstrations, but things have changed. There is Al Jazeera, RT, the BBC, Indymedia, Utube where coverage is going on all the time by people who are actually there. There is the Global Live Stream and now the Occupiers have their own newspaper. Not to mention Twitter, FB and other social media. And some of the local newspapers have done some good coverage also. So, it's had plenty of coverage and the Occupiers knew this would happen and had their own media from the beginning.

Who wants to watch Corporate Cheer-leaders? They are now exposed as totally irrelevant since it's clear they could not stop this movement which hopefully will result in their complete demise when this country reinstantes Fairness in Broadcasting laws.


Please, keep them away. They work for Wall Street, as do the NYPD and the NYC Mayor. They ARE the 1% and are exposed as such by this movement.

[shraby]

5. You'll get more news from the internet than you ever will

from MSM...unless it's a missing white blond girl.

[blogslut]

7. Take heart - the Internet will soon pass television as a source of news

link: http://www.people-press.org/2011/01/04/internet-gains-on-television-as-publics-main-news-source/

The word is being spread despite the mainstream media.