Post Your Local Occupy Wall Street Protest Photos Here

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paulfish4570 said:
paulbe: i have not watched tv at all, nor read more than six words on the ocw business. i have no idea if the people are sincere or not. i merely was suggesting that cynicism might be the root of what nick sees as biased coverage. i remember watching some major medias tea party coverage and reading some about the movement. i saw what nick says he sees in major media coverage of ocw: bias against the movement.
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Paul, I followed this pretty closely from the start. The attitude of the Times was incredibly snarky when the occupation first started. I couldn't figure out whether I was reading a news article or a Fox News op-ed. On that first Friday, I was really disappointed, as the Times led me to believe that it was just a couple dozen washed-up hippies huddling under tarps.

Then on Saturday I read that seven hundred were arrested on the Brooklyn bridge, and five thousand tried to march across.

That is not just cynicism, that is journalists not doing their jobs. They disrespect the young (and old) people who make up the movement, because these lack access to power. In the "old days" I think at least some reporters had a natural inclination to take interest in the underdog, and to distrust and question authority figures, but no more.

Randy
 
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Why? What is the basis for this cynicism?
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Because unions have also cozied up to power, just like the politicians.

Paul, you may be aware that while the OWS folks were happy for the union show of support (and food), a lot of ambivalence has leaked out at the prospect of a union attempt at hijacking the movement.

Randy
 
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Agree with Rob above there are always to sides to every story and I find if I watch CNN for the left and Fox for the right I can then make up my own mind. We get both News channels here in NZ. Some nice photos the though Nick.
 
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On a more photographic note . . . errrmmm, some nicely composed pictures further up this thread. Kudos to Nick for starting the thread too.
 
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MartinP said:
On a more photographic note . . . errrmmm, some nicely composed pictures further up this thread. Kudos to Nick for starting the thread too.
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The thing is, a lot of ageing hippies now live WAAAY out in the country, where we don't have much chance to deal directly with this stuff, and we can't really afford to go into the big cities where people get excited about this sort of thing. Three or four days in Paris is a thousand euros gone, $1350 or thereabouts, and I can't afford that just to add a few pictures to this thread -- though if I could, I've learned an impressive amount here about how to do it, and how not to do it.

Looking back on the demos I went on, or covered, such as Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, anti-Vietnam war, Save the Whale (aka Wave the Sail), CycleBAG (Cycle Bristol Action Group), Tibetan freedom or (Russian) White House protestors, I'm damn' sure I could do a LOT better nowadays, and I'm equally sure that this thread has given as big a kick to my knowledge as the last 20+ years (since Moscow, in fact). Thanks both to those who have provided excellent 'how to' pictures, and to those who have shown either what not to do, or how a picture can be 'close, but no cigar'.

The important thing, above all, is just DO IT. Whether you're on the left, or in the Tea Party, why aren't you trying to promote your cause through photography? My excuse is that I'm quite an old man (yeah, I know 61 ain't that old, but it feels it sometimes); that I don't go into big cities much; and, yes, that my real income has fallen to the extent that I can't afford what I used to (part of the 99% argument). What's YOUR excuse?

This may sound odd coming from an M9 owner, but for me, to go to a demo without a camera is to do a tiny fraction of what I could do with a camera, and besides, an M9 is a tool that helps me earn a living from more lucrative gigs than demos; lucrative gigs I need in order to survive. If the other gigs paid better (99% again) maybe I could afford to go on the demos. I wonder why oligarchs don't want to pay journalists more...?

Cheers,

R.
 
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due to the continued political comments and the mods warnings being ignored this thread is now closed.

should anyone start a new thread or make comments on rff censorship...they will be banned.
no matter who you are...

enough is enough.
 
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