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mk · 4818 days ago · link · · parent · post: In response to a top comment on that other social news site
One thing that makes me happy about OWS is that it's much more difficult for the media to frame the debate, and that IMO, this is the crux of so many problems that plague this country right now. To anyone that is only modestly interested in researching the facts of any particular issue, most media isn't much more than a sanitized puppet show. You can see the major outlets are almost begging the protesters to take a simplified stand, so that they can have something to put through the usual talking head banter machine. -It's just how things are supposed to be done between commercial breaks.
People have been disenfranchised and they know it. That's not a problem easily fixed by the status quo system. I think this is going to be a long push.