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Originally Posted by epitome
Like I said, you don't have to be at a park to support a movement.
The same people who were outraged when the Supreme Court ruled corps can freely donate to candidates are the people who are pissed at Wall Street.
Also, media is a biz. They give people what they want and nothing more. If there is coverage it is because people are eating it up. Both the tea party and OWS.
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Yeah, but to "support" a movement you have to agree with it and feel the same.
I'm not sure that everyday people in this country feel one way or another about them. And my gut feeling is that millions of rednecks and people living in small towns across this country think the whole thing is stupid.
Also as to the media coverage and people "eating it up"...the media was also 24/7 Anna Nicole Smith a couple of years back. They also were 24/7 Libya a few weeks ago. You get the idea...they over-do newstories. And when they decide to push whatever they push on a particular week, it's almost like there IS no other news in the world.
Just like the OWS thing. Suddenly we don't seem to have troops in Afghanistan, that whole Libya thing is forgotten, nobody in the world has died, that whole credit rating thing doesn't exist...
A lot of this is pure media driven. Not saying that there isn't more to it...but I am pretty sure that IF all the television cameras went away, the "protest" would be over by the end of the day.