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rjw  ·  3770 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ferguson: summary of last night by twitter screenshots

That's one of the fucked up things about the media - any sort of protest or social issue gets about a week or two of attention then it's on to the next thing (unless the paper itself has adopted it as a cause célèbre - some UK papers are still writing stories about Madeleine McCann, the Daily Express has been on a 'crusade' against inheritance tax since before I can remember, etc). People assume that if it's not being reported on, then it probably all finished and everything went back to normal. That's often not the case.





galen  ·  3769 days ago  ·  link  ·  

See also: Occupy

Bloomberg promised not to kick them out of Zucotti and then did exactly that. And no one covered it b/c Occupy's 15 minutes were up.

rjw  ·  3769 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah - if you time everything just about right you can make it as if it never happened. He who controls the past...

galen  ·  3769 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Orwell sounds more prophetic every day.