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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Occupy / Media Occupy Portland: NOW What are the Commenters Saying?

Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:14 PM

After the police bureau issued their Occupy Portland "public safety update" yesterday (peppered with unverified reports of violence, poop buckets, and raw sewage flowing down the street), local news outlets naturally swarmed all over it. Local FOX affiliate KPTV regurgitated the police bureau's claims, but actually included a lot of quotes from the occupiers. KATU unsurprisingly reprinted the entire report without questioning a single item. Ditto for the Oregonian. Ditto for KOIN Local 6 (who, in their defense, have successfully completed a month of broadcasts without a single top story about a dog running down the freeway). And KGW presented the most balanced report, actually questioning the veracity of some of the police bureau's claims.

BUT WHO CARES ABOUT THAT, RIGHT? LET'S READ SOME NUTBAG COMMENTS FROM THOSE STORIES! (P.S. Way to feed the misinformed public hysteria, guys.)

From Fox:

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From KOIN Local 6:

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More after the jump!

From the O:

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From KATU:

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A voice in the wilderness.

 

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1
Media coverage is a double-edged sword, isn't it?
I heard on the telly this morning there is a march planned for today (?), and yet I haven't read of it here.
What gives?
Posted by frankieb on October 26, 2011 at 12:33 PM · Report
2
Pft! I won't listen to any OPC, no matter how logical or well-reasoned!
Posted by Fruit Cup on October 26, 2011 at 12:34 PM · Report
3
simple yes or no......these parks belong to everyone, right(including the 1%!)?
Posted by C.O. on October 26, 2011 at 12:38 PM · Report
4
Funny, I could have almost exactly predicted those responses from the various local news organizations. Did KATU manage to work in something about cyclists running stop signs?
Posted by Stu on October 26, 2011 at 12:41 PM · Report
5
Nothing new here. All the anti-occupiers ever seem to offer up is knee-jerk(*) derision, contempt and condescension.

* from Webster's online dictionary:

knee-jerk (adj): readily predictable, automatic, reacting in a readily predictable way

You see, frankieb, the shoe fits perfectly.
Posted by dmitrir on October 26, 2011 at 12:48 PM · Report
6
Fits both of us quite well, really.
Posted by frankieb on October 26, 2011 at 1:00 PM · Report
7
@C.O.
"simple yes or no......these parks belong to everyone, right(including the 1%!)?"

Simple answer: YES! But be sure to bring your own sleeping bag. (Sorry, the rest of the 99% are sick of paying your way.)
Posted by Wm. Steven Humphrey on October 26, 2011 at 1:11 PM · Report
8
I hope this isn't true:

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.s…
Posted by Chuck Garabedian on October 26, 2011 at 1:29 PM · Report
9
"Occupy" is imploding.
Between this money problem, and the problems within the group about drugs / alcohol / fighting....
it is imploding.
Does this mean they can't pay to fix the damage they caused the park, that they assured us to fix?
Posted by frankieb on October 26, 2011 at 1:34 PM · Report
10
haha: "It didn't not smell like hippies." -CrazyNative
Posted by dotcomdotcom on October 26, 2011 at 1:50 PM · Report
11
9/26 Never Forget. Fucking Mango the dog.
Posted by Dasen on October 26, 2011 at 2:08 PM · Report
12
What seems to me to be the most unfortunate aspect of the Occupy movement (nationwide - not just here in Portland) is how badly figures in the mainstream media seem to want it to fail. The people who comment on the stories by the mainstream media don't seem to be much better, either.

Kind of sad, all things considered, when people are too myopic and narrow-minded, or too paralyzed by their partisanship to stop, and take a moment to actually think critically about the nature of a political movement that purports be trying to help them out of one of the worst financial and economic crises in the history of this country.

I simply don't understand why so many people seem to want socio-political movements that try, however naively, to effect positive social change to fail. It's like this country is mostly populated by grumpy masochists or something.
Posted by Snagglepuss on October 26, 2011 at 2:36 PM · Report
13
This is why I get all my news from Blogtown.
Posted by Reymont on October 26, 2011 at 2:38 PM · Report
14
frankieb, I've only posted about your knee-jerk reaction to any stories about the occupy movement four times (five, if you count this one). How many times have you posted your derision about the movement yet? Is it more or less than the number of times you posted "Honeybucket"?
Posted by dmitrir on October 26, 2011 at 3:44 PM · Report
15
dmitrir - trolling again are we?
Posted by frankieb on October 26, 2011 at 4:51 PM · Report
16
Hey, wait, this is a comment trap, isn't it? Thanks, Steve. btw, whats the weather gonna be this weekend and what's on TV this Friday?
Posted by Tom [______] . on October 26, 2011 at 8:36 PM · Report
17
Damnit, if Sam Adams was having sex with protestors I WOULD BE OUT THERE IN A HEART-BEAT.
Posted by ScrumYummy on October 27, 2011 at 12:00 AM · Report
18
I have such an online-nutter-comments boner right now.
Posted by reid.parham on October 27, 2011 at 10:43 AM · Report

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