What if the Tea Party Occupied Wall Street?

[marmar]

Published on Friday, September 23, 2011 by FAIR

What if the Tea Party Occupied Wall Street?
Corporate media skip anti-corporate protests


In an action called Occupy Wall Street, thousands of activists took to the streets of Lower Manhattan on September 17.

The protests are continuing, with demonstrators camped out on the Financial District's Liberty Street in support of U.S. democratization and against corporate domination of politics (Adbusters, 9/19/11).

But you wouldn't know much about any of this from the corporate media--outlets that seem much more interested in protests of the Tea Party variety.

The anti-corporate protests have been lightly covered in the hometown New York Times: One piece (9/18/11) largely about how the police blocked access to Wall Street, and one photo (9/22/11) with the caption "Wall Street Protest Whirls On." ........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/09/23-7

[rfranklin]

1. It would be covered like 9/11...

with TV trucks encamped on Wall Street and 24/7 "discussions" of how this "changed everything."

[brewens]

2. They should have right when the tea party thing started. It wasn't

long before the big money lobbyists and Koch brothers swooped in and co-opted their "movement". The first few weeks though, I think something like that would have been possible. It would have been more of a protest about taxpayers having to bail them out, less about the fraud.

[Pab Sungenis]

4. Koch Bros. and lobbyists didn't co-opt the Tea Party movement.

They created it, and pretended that it was grassroots.

[Bonhomme Richard]

3. 24/7 coverage no doubt as long as they supported Wall Street.

Otherwise the MSM would turn on them faster than they could say constitutional rights.

[dtexdem]

5. It already does.

Or rather, Wall Street occupies the Tea Party.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. and Washington.

[ellenrr]

7. So true! grrrr n/t