On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Devin Balkind <[email protected]> wrote:
Here's a great example of how the media handles coverage about Occupy Wall St.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Susan Bernofsky <[email protected]>
Hey there - I'm sure you all noticed that the NYT first published a story that made it clear that the NYPD entrapped demonstrators on the bridge, and then later they replaced it with a version of the story that makes the NYPD look good.
I wouldn't be at all surprised by collusion between the NYT and NYPD, but from what I saw in the two versions this wasn't really a clear case of it. If anything, the revised includes more explicit claims that the protesters were entrapped and that they felt the police had been directing them onto the bridge, than the first article did. My guess is that the NYT expanded the original version in response to police complaints, and included both official NYPD statements *and* more detailed statements from Occupy. -- Kevin Carson Research Associate, Center for a Stateless Society http://c4ss.org Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective