I’ve caught a little of the media coverage of Occupy Wall Street and mostly they’re just repeating the police official story about the Brooklyn bridge arrests. But I don’t get NYC local tv up here. What are people seeing on their teevees down there? I’m very curious.
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TheYankeeApologist
I’m seeing a bunch of nothing, so far . . . . other than very quick touching on the NYPD party line. . . . they were at fault, the cops are just protecting the city, blah blah.
I’m much more getting a sense of what’s happening through some friends that are actually down there. My Facebook and Twitter machines are going off the hook with updates – it’s not what my retired cop father is saying it is, I’ll tell you that.
Villago Delenda Est
The media, from top to bottom, are just part of the larger problem.
Fortunately, there will be plenty of tumbrels to go around when the reckoning is at hand.
kd bart
“HEY DUDES”
Linda Featheringill
I finally got to see the video of the Fox interview with an occupier.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/oct/03/occupy-wall-street-protests-live#helper
Didn’t find the video on a stand-along basis.
I understand that Fox hasn’t aired that interview. They might not ever air it.
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
Has anyone mentioned that the TeaBaghists are the REAL victims?
B W Smith
Mott the Hoople or Ozzy Osbourne version?
Nemesis
Now Ive drunk a lot of wine
and Im feeling fine,
gonna race some cat to bed…
Saw some coverage this a.m. maybe it was MSNBC. Not terrible coverage. The “smaller sized crowd” was noted, although the crowds are smallish but growing by the day. Im pleased it reveived any attention at all. Not really expecting a fair shake.
Hill Dweller
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen: Darth Cheney and his evil spawn are the actual victims; and President Obama owes them an apology.
Omnes Omnibus
God, I need TV.
Robert
Big Baby DougJ, you can follow local NYC news on the NY1 site. Here’s a search for Occupy Wall Street. It’s all the NYPD talking points.
Brachiator
ABC radio news reporter (on his on time) has posted on the street reports on the online site, Storify.
You should be able to find the postings here.
Stories at his blog iste can be found here.
Rafer Janders
My favorite so far was a clip where the anchor announced “and NYPD has just released a video of protestors sitting down on the Brooklyn Bridge”, as if to imply that the protestors deliberately sat down to block traffic.
In fact, however, the protestors sat down only after they were stopped from marching all the way across by the cops and held in place by netting. So instead of standing in place, they sat in place, which is perfectly reasonable but is now being made to seem nefarious….
Big Baby DougJ
@Robert:
Thanks!
handy
@B W Smith:
Bowie if I know DougJ
Montysano
@Linda Featheringill: Shrill occupier was shrill.
The young man was quite articulate, hence I’m going to bet that Fox News will never, ever show this interview.
TheMightyTrowel
incidentally i recommend this ezra klein interview with my favourite anthropologist (a former prof of mine) David Graeber, one of the OWS organisers. Man’s a genius – slightly mad, but a genius. Also, read his new book: Debt the first 5000 years.
fasteddie9318
Television? Who wastes their time with that relic of bourgeois decadence? I prefer to read. On my Kindle. And watch movies on my DVD player and high-def TV. And listen to music on my MP3 player. And browse internet websites on my IPad and phone. And sometimes play video games.
Oh, and watch television, can’t forget that. Wait, what was I on about?
Brachiator
@Big Baby DougJ: Crap! I meant to say that ABC radio news reporter Dan Patterson (on his on time) has posted on the street reports on the online site, Storify, in an earlier post.
Very good, nonpartisan reporting of the sites and sounds of the protest.
Omnes Omnibus
Neither Mott nor Ozzie, Bowie.
Bruuuuce
To avoid moderation, I’m including only two links here:
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/
More in the next post.
Bruuuuce
More NYC local news coverage:
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/index
http://www.wpix.com/news/
One more…
Bruuuuce
Last two NYC local news links:
http://www.thirteen.org/pressroom/index.php
http://www.my9tv.com/
Not linking to the local Fox affiliate, because, well…
Caramuru
Late last night NY1 – the local TWC 24 hour news channel – showed videos and interviews of protesters saying the police has led them into the Brooklyn Bridge, walking ahead of them, before at some point stopping and starting to arrest the protesters who followed. There were videos of cops walking ahead of protesters. I haven’t seen anything yet today but I haven’t been around the tv for too long.
B W Smith
@handy: Being old and a purist, I prefer Mott the Hoople. I always disliked Ozzy’s version. To be honest, I completely forgot about Bowie. At the risk of incurring DougJ’s wrath, I’ve never been a big fan of Bowie.
Linda Featheringill
Live blog at The Guardian was talking about provocateurs leading the march onto the roadway.
We shouldn’t be surprised at this. This could be a real problem for protests.
However, I don’t think it will do The Enemy a lot of good. People who sympathize with the position of the occupy group will forgive what they see as mistakes and people who aren’t sympathetic will never come around anyway.
fasteddie9318
@Bruuuuce: Is the local NYC Faux affiliate like the mothership? I never watch local Chicago news (which I’m sure will eventually claim my life and the lives of my family because WHAT’S COMING UP AFTER THE COMMERCIAL BREAK COULD KILL YOU AND EVERYONE YOU HOLD DEAR!), but the ads for the Faux affiliate news here always remind me of the time Jason Jones did that “You Jackin’ It?” investigative reporter segment on TDS.
wrb
@Linda Featheringill:
That is a great interview.
Well worth watching.
And most entertaining.
Find it by scrolling down to 1:37 am
Bruuuuce
@fasteddie9318: It’s less reliable in many ways than the other stations in town, though it’s nowhere near as insane as the cable channel(s, counting Faux Business). I avoid it for everything except The Simpsons and sports.
MattR
@fasteddie9318: Local Fox is the home of Ernie Anastos of “keep fucking that chicken” fame. Don’t watch the local coverage enough to comment. But I will note that Fox’s penchant for creating facts has spread to the sports division now.
Culture of Truth
Local Fox is not all bad. The protest was the lead story back when people were wondering why no one was covering it.
JCT
Now I have this song going through my head — the Bowie version is great, but isn’t it a cover of Mott the Hoople? May be the other way around.
My Pandora station was on fire last night with old ou Reed, Moot the Hoople and Bowie (including some great oldies from “Pin-ups”).
OK, I feel old now.
Punchy
Most importantly, what does Andy Sullivan see down there?
Punchy
OT:
This looks really, really ugly. Clearly, less regulation, tax cuts, and concealed weapons for kindergarten teachers would have prevented this.
Ben Cisco
Ferengi gotta do what Ferengi gotta do, that latinum ain’t gonna earn itself.
Face
@Punchy: From that link —
Because schools are hermetically sealed, all air-locky and stuff. I’m guessing this smoke’s toxicity is going to put the WTC fires toxicity to shame.
Joel
@B W Smith: Well, Bowie wrote it, IIRC, for Mott the Hopple. Just like “China Girl” and Iggy Pop (the best version).
jayackroyd
RCN doesn’t have NY1 and I cannot stomach local news broadcasts.
I am gonna go down there tomorrow for 4 or 5 hours. Get a feel.
Mino
If Rick Perry would stand in one place for a minute, God would stop starting fires all over our state.
Bruuuuce
@Ben Cisco: Have you been reading Stonekettle Station again? :-)
geg6
@B W Smith:
The only version worth listening to, of course. Unless Bowie’s singing it.
Love me some Ian Hunter.
B W Smith
@Joel: You are correct. Bowie did write it. I just like Mott’s version the best, you know, high school days and all. I am old and set in my ways (musically).
geg6
@B W Smith:
You do know that Bowie is the songwriter, don’t you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Young_Dudes_%28song%29
Violet
Not local, but I was just in the car and heard the BBC interviewing protestors. It’s definitely getting international coverage.
Ben Cisco
@Bruuuuce: I had never seen him before today. Read your link and immediately added him to my blogroll. Thanks!
geg6
As for the protests (and not the coverage), I find this interesting:
Now, unlike what I’ve been reading up to now, this sounds like a plan. March on Wall Street, march on Congress, and march on K Street, the unholy trinity of pretty much all that is evil in this country. I like it.
At bottom, I’d like the protests to take on about 3 or 4 big issues and focus like lasers on them. First, just forgive all the bad mortgages and end foreclosures for the time being. Second, a transaction tax. Third, tax reform and an increase in the marginal rate and capital gains. And fourth, a second and more stimulative (no tax cuts!) stimulus, focusing on states and infrastructure spending to increase employment.
Anything more than this muddies the message. But it’s a bunch of disparate, vaguely liberal groups involved, so I know there is no hope of this.
Southern Beale
Amanda Knox. Herman Cain. Rick Perry. Michael Jackson trial.
Oh, you meant about the Wall Street Protests? Sorry, hasn’t made the news down here.
Jay in Oregon
@Linda Featheringill:
That video can be found here; apparently it’s not in the public listings on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yrT-0Xbrn4
Jay in Oregon
@Southern Beale:
Are you stuck in the Wayback Machine, or have we figured out how to put dead people on trial?
Mike E
Saw on CNBC earlier a 3 box on 1 box interview seg where despite the numerical disadvantage the “expert” (didn’t catch his name) held his own and pointed out that young protesters, even tho the older under-employed contingent is much bigger (I’m in this camp) the young are usually the driving force in protests… Soc Sec is a 1% GDP issue compared to the much larger chunk that is health costs and doesn’t require anything more than a “tweak”… the dude did well on that set of GOP inequity. Ephemera
daryljfontaine
@wrb: 11:37AM, but close enough.
Like the interviewee’s “everyman” feel. Joe the Social1st?
D
Samara Morgan
i recommend Teh Twitter Machine, DougJ.
and some Academy Is.
you both mean shit to me.
i liek the dubstep version bettah…but thats just me.
Some have to kill, some have to dance.
Mateo
I haven’t looked at the local CBS, NBC, or ABC affiliates, but I have to say that what I have seen on New York 1 (which is owned by CNN) hasn’t been bad. They’ve been covering it daily and actually interviewed a kid yesterday who was part of the group that marched onto the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday. They let him explain that once everybody had marched onto the bridge, the NYPD blockaded them and essentially trapped them on the bridge so that they could ticket all of them, one by one. They had another interview this morning with a reasonably articulate participant and have definitely not been toeing the NYPD line, for the most part. And they have been claiming that the gathering is growing, not diminishing…
benjoya
don’t know about local WNYC, but NPR reported that there was a secret video that showed the cops trying to keep protestors off the roadway. no link on their site, of course.