Perhaps it's time to "Occupy America"?
{The following article was written in 2011 by progressive author and historian Michael Parenti)
"Occupy America"
by Michael Parenti
Beginning with "Occupy Wall Street" in September, 2011, a protest movement spread across the United States to 70 major cities and hundreds of other communities.
Similar actions emerged in scores of other nations.
For the first two weeks, the corporate-owned mainstream media along with NPR did what they usually do with progressive protests: they ignored them.
These were the same media that had given the Tea Party supporters saturation coverage for two weeks on end, ordaining them " a major political force."
The most common and effective mode of news repression is omission.
By saying nothing or next to nothing about dissenting events, movements, candidates, or incidents, the media consign them to oblivion.
When the Occupy movement spread across the country and could no longer be ignored, the media moved to the second manipulative method: trivialization and marginalization.
So we heard that the protesters were unclear about what they were protesting and they were "far removed from the mainstream."
Media cameras focused on the clown who danced on Wall Street in full-blown circus costume, and the youths who pounded bongo drums: "a carnival atmosphere" "youngsters out on a spree," with "no connection to the millions of middle Americans" who supposedly watched with puzzlement and alarm.
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