From News Busters In recent years, the Miss America and Miss USA pageants have been places viewers can see how well-poised, educated women field tough questions about divisive issues the country is facing. The 2012 Miss America competition was no exception, as Miss New York was asked about Occupy Wall Street. But similar to Carrie [...]
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City Of Cleveland announces support for OWS
From Care2 Last week, the Cleveland city council held an emergency meeting to determine its stance on Occupy Cleveland as well as the Occupy movement at large. Resolution 1720-11 was approved by the City Council will a vote of 18 yeas and only 1 nay. With a population of 2,250,000 people, Cleveland joins other large cities [...]
How the mainstream media formulates headlines describing OWS
From NewsBusters: From the end of this weekend’s Fox News Watch show, a comedy video created by the Jest.com humor site I saw the Romenesko page posted on Wednesday titled “Where Occupy Wall Street Headlines Come From.” FNC host Jon Scott asked: “Did you ever wonder how different news operations come up with the headlines [...]
Meet Kalle Lasn – the man behind the occupier movement
According to the mainstream media, the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is something of a spontaneous grassroots movement, similar to what we saw with Tea Party. But the truth is OWS has been in the works for a long time. The man behind the movement is a radical Canadian leftist agitator by the name of Kalle [...]
Richmond Tea Party sues city for $10,000 rally refund
From The Republic: The Richmondtea party is demanding a refund of about $10,000 from the city, claiming it unfairly charged them for rallies while allowing the Occupy protesters to use the same space for several weeks for free. The political organization is sending the city an invoice for the charges incurred for three rallies held [...]
NPR host fired for organizing role in Occupy DC
From the Daily Caller: After violating National Public Radio’s ethics code by acting as a spokeswoman for Occupy DC protesters, Lisa Simeone was fired Wednesday evening from one of the two public radio programs she hosts, the Associated Press reports. Simeone was fired from “SoundPrint,” an internationally syndicated program appearing on NPR affiliate WAMU in Washington, D.C. The official [...]
