Something I actually hate less over time

[tompurdue]

Not watching the news gives me a very odd perspective on the news.  The more news I watch, the more things I hate.  And I'm not just talking about "dislike" passing as "hate" here.  I mean the number of things that I would destroy by force if I could get away with it.

Still, I eventually hear about things anyway.  Hell, despite avoiding the news, I

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[badmagic]

Those protests are nationwide. That you've only heard of the ones in NYC suggests that the mainstream media isn't covering them.

[vvalkyri]

That, and they'd been going on for a week or two before they started getting attention by the police pepperspraying some gal, caught on video. I listen to a fair amount of news (for an average person) and I'd heard nothing of it until someone told me about it, back on 25 September. I think the first I /heard/ a story about it (as opposed to saw a blogpost) was during Diane Rehm Friday News Roundup this past Friday, when the discussion was "what's this about getting no attention? Well, there are protests everywhere all the time - it's hard to choose what to cover, unless someone gets pepper sprayed and it goes viral."

I thought the large number of arrests on the brooklyn bridge after the protesters thought they'd been told they had the okay to march was pretty rich, though.

[vvalkyri]

Elsejournal, an interesting discussion. I hadn't known about the later effects from the antiglobalization protests in the late 90s.

http://nancylebov.livejournal.com/506436.html?nc=16

(that was tangented off the original Occupy Wall Street post.)

[tompurdue]

Very good point. I may have to crawl out of my self-protected curling-into-a-ball and watch enough news to hear about it.

[vvalkyri]

I don't have time today to post about this, but it opens with a thought provoking indictment of "um, maybe you could try actually asking some questions?"

Starting with asking the park for a statement, this guy had some fascinating observations re how the OWS NYC protests are organized, from 'how does the park stay clean' to 'how do they order speakers' to 'wait, how do they address the crowd without megaphones?'

He also notes the danger of being coopted by existing organizations, and spends some time as well on the concept of Filter Bubble.

http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2011/10/independent-reporting-of.html#more