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The greater the Occupy resistence grows, and it will in direct proportion to an early spring thaw and continued marathon of the meretricious Republican primary pretenders, the harder is the top down sales invective from our corporate overlords.
No longer subjecting myself to the horrors of American broadcast/cable media, I'm thankfully ignorant of it's current state. There's a framework in play and if you're working for the crony capitalists that own the prole feeding news outlets, you know how to keep your job.
Just don't report on anything too substantively critical of the paymasters.
I weighed the options. And hesitated. It is one thing to be arrested as an independent journalist in a centrally located public square, where mainstream news cameras and spectators function as Klieg lights. They increase the likelihood that police officers involved will be held accountable. But it is another to get arrested in more distant outposts. Working journalists, after all, have been corralled and arrested, and occasionally punched, at demonstrations around the country, some on videotape. I often wonder about other independent journalists who have tried to cover Occupy events in out-of-the-limelight spaces. I also wonder about the communities who rely on them, and on student journalists, for news coverage that speaks to their particular concerns. “The news landscape has changed to the point where grassroots media is more important” than ever, argues Susan Mernit, editor-in-chief of the Oakland Local, a three-year-old startup that uses freelance and citizen journalists.
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