Forum Post: Call Out FOX
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 4, 2011, 2:34 p.m. EST by chillannyc
(10)
This content is user submitted and not an official statement
Among FOX's immature and dirty tirade against OWS, they have now begun trolling these forums and taking anybody's post as "official." They published a list of one person's proposed 13 demands as official demands.
I wonder if my comment on their site will be approved? haha yeah right.
I wrote: "This list came from one random guy's post in the forums at occupywallstreet.org. THEY ARE NOT OFFICIAL. The General Assembly has not produced a list of demands. Do not take anything you read on the forums, or on Coup Media to be "official." The most official sources for OWS opinions and news are adbusters.org and nycga.cc. Please people, stop letting Fox fool you. They didn't even include a link - of course this is not official. Real news media includes sources and actual investigation, not forum trolling." http://nation.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/04/read-demands-occupy-wall-street-and-try-not-laugh#
Don't waste your time on Fox. They are the height of counter-revolutionary, feudal-supporting bull$hit.
CNN is questioning what you are doing as well. No plan, lots of ideas (hundreds, or thousands). No direction. It looks more like a gathering at a music festival. No cohesion except to say you do not want to be resposible for the choices you make. You can't get something for nothing. You can't have freedom for free.
I think that CNN, as the mouthpiece of a MAJOR corporation, along with all other mainstream media, have much to be gained by downplaying the purpose and efficacy of OWS.
I think that what OWS says is the exact opposite. The point is that we don't want to give our responsibility for choices away to the 1%. These protests exemplify exactly what you must give away to be "free," what the obligations of citizenry are.
The whole world is a liberal conspiracy reporting network - only fox is the truth. Oh and by the way everyone in the world is crazy and I am the only normal one. Fox should be illegal - some people watch that and actually believe every word they say and that the whole rest of the world is a liberal conspiracy. That's part of how the 99%s get their grips on people that and exploiting religion. I wouldn't put it past them to hire people to blog on here to make it look like they have 50%
surprising number of people think that Jon Stewart and Stephen Cobert are news people too.
Fox has become the largest propaganda machine for the wealthy and their Republican puppets that we can ever imagine. And the sad thing is I can go out and hear it repeated by so many working class people who are the victims of our governments policies. Fox has apparently brainwashed millions.
OMG - you totally described how I feel about this better than I could have. Yeah they are really victims. They end up convinced to fight against their own self interest
Fox has become the largest propaganda machine for the wealthy and their Republican puppets that we can ever imagine. And the sad thing is I can go out and hear it repeated by so many working class people who are the victims of our governments policies. Fox has apparently brainwashed millions.
I mean it gets me fired up to see an average person bet programmed by Fox and believe everything on there.
Fox isn't the problem. It is the fact that people think their "side" is the better side to be on. Stop the two party fanaticism and join as one group, liberal and conservative--> RESTORE power to the citizens! Further playing to the media's (on both sides yes MSNBC is just as guilty) polarization is defeating the real purpose here.
It's hard to break out of the two-party thinking. I recognize that both parties are corrupted the same way, but the dems at least give lip service to commoners like me - right before they sign the bills to bail out a bank
As long as we have winner-take-all elections and do not institute proportional representation, it will always be a two party system. The founders set it all up against the 99% I'm sorry to say. I mean, WTF is up with the electoral college?
Are television viewers still drinking the koolaid fox is serving up everyday...really?
like
You should see the comments on that story haha.
Eh, the only people taking Fox News seriously these days are the people for whom the word "change" invokes fear. Ultra-conservatives of wealth don't seem to blend well with change... but they do tend to like to twist genuinely just causes to serve their own agendas:
http://nation.foxnews.com/charles-krauthammer/2011/10/03/krauthammer-knocks-occupy-wall-street-should-be-protesting-obama-administration?intcmp=fly
Just keep Fox News where it belongs, categorized under satirical comedy... and-try-not-to-laugh. ;)
It's alarming the number of people I've met who have these whacked out, crazy set of ideals and then at some point I am with them and they tune on Fox news. It's a serious problem. Most of the people I've met in this category were deeply religious and it made me realize that religion is being exploited as a political tool.
Religion has always been exploited as a political tool unfortunately.
The separation of church and government isn't as clear as it should be. How much of the conservative vote would be lost to an agnostic, someone who could cut through the hype and get down to real business?
There's a lot of eye-opening to motivate if real, positive change is going to take place. Imagine what the news would look like if everyone saw the country with an objective view? That would be news worth watching.
read this Warning from the original Tea Party before it got hijacked http://occupywallst.org/forum/an-open-letter-and-warning-from-a-former-tea-party/
This is a standard tactic, social media is the only way to get the real message out to the people
Fox News Network has always been an enemy of the people, an enemy of the state, an enemy of America at large. This is nothing new, but it comes as bad timing on their part. For years (more than a decade) they have slandered and derided, ridiculed and libeled the average person hiding behind the guise of anonymity online, whether through a callsign, nickname or proxy. Worse, they spoon-feed these blatant lies and abhorrent defamation to the masses.
I agree that was wrong but you have to admit in the 24 hour news cycle, the group is taking way too long to make up demands. A week should have been enough time.
I understand your point of view from a media communications perspective, but in some sense I like the way OWS is taking their time an on some level defying the corporate media. I'd rather we take 2 months to reach a consensus that is well thought-out and effective while we build support, than try to quickly produce something for the sake of News Corp, Disney, and Time Warner-AOL that may disenfranchise some of the support we already have.
take too long and no one cares...
Yeah, I kind of agree. I'm hoping that as long as the movement continues spreading, and as there are more marches and mass arrests, and creative civil disobedience, then there will still be enough public curiosity to keep it going for a while. Maybe I'm too much of an optimist?
why would there be more marches since no one knows what they are marching about. no, sorry, 15 minutes are up.
Guess you might as well stop looking at the website then ;-)