But OWS is not about JOBS

[nadinbrzezinski]

Ok then

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10100132910692768&set=o.216548088418210&type=1&theater

Sorry for breaking THAT MEDIA narrative.

[SoDesuKa]

1. Counter-Narrative

Sometimes it takes a counter-narrative to make people aware that the Official Story is itself only a narrative. Before the Occupy movements got underway, we thought that the Gods Who Control the Economy were as remote and implacable as the Gods Who Control the Weather. We now recognize that the economy works to the advantage of the 1% to the disadvantage of the 99%, and that if the power elite really wanted to help out, they probably could do a lot. But they don't lift a finger to do anything; it's just not in their nature.

The extraordinary efforts to crush the Occupy movement are paradoxically helping the spread the movement. Bloomberg can't pretend to be a Man of the People. Nor can the Established Media pretend to be honest and objective when they've gone so far out of their way to smear a movement comprised of ordinary people. The counter-narrative comes into being when the Official Story can't possibly be true. Cities don't send out hundreds of riot cops in the middle of the night because people are pissing on the sidewalk. A story like that is too far-fetched to be believed by anybody.

[aquart]

2. Yet I met someone this very week who believes it. Sigh.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Propaganda works, and we need to call it what it is.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Small effect with local media

Citizen journos are forcing local rag to report closer numbers and actually balance the story a tad.

The counter narrative is happening.