Forum Post: Massive Media Blackout
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 16, 2011, 12:08 a.m. EST by zer0
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I'm sure you are aware but I'd thought I would bring it up on here. There is a massive media blackout on you guys. I mean there is maybe a little coverage here and there and they're talking about the "small gatherings in various cities across the country" but they are not talking about the truly massive movement you guys influenced. The media is also slamming you guys with negativity. Even left wing news is. The only guy I've seen reporting on you unbiasly is Keith Olberman who until now I have never liked.
The fact is that you have to REALLY get the word out. You also have to find something that you stand for. I think from what I can gather you stand for one thing which is separation of money and politics. But you need something, a video, saying who you are, what you are, and what you want. And what you DON'T WANT. And you need to stress how this is international. You need to get things from OTHER countries if possible as well.
There are a lot of people in this country who are not with you, but they would be if they REALLY KNEW WHAT YOU STOOD FOR. No one is reporting the truth on you guys. You're all a bunch of rag-tag hippies who shit in parks and piss in the street and have sex in public while smoking marijuana. Now I'm not positive if you do that but I am pretty sure it is super slanted media. You need to be CLEAR. Don't be that girl I heard on 94.3 earlier who is running around with her top off. You need to be clear and precise about what you want or you will fall victim to sound bites.
There are people in this country that don't even KNOW that there are protests going on. Anyone have any ideas for all of this? You guys are well organized and you're intelligent, someone has to be able to figure out a way to do this. I'm talking
OccupyFacebook, #OccupyTwitter #OccupyTalkRadio #OccupyCNN #OccupyFoxNews #OccupyMSNBC
OccupyCBS #OccupyBBC
To sum it up you have to #OccupyMedia.
Flood their phones with calls, flood facebook and twitter with pictures and links and videos. But be precise. You guys have enough people in WALL ST. alone to MAKE the media recognize you.
Ron Paul and OWS both blacked out by MSM. So much in common yet people can't put 2 and 2 together.
we really need all you e-marketing peps to step up here. there are so many creative avenues to use still untapped. we need, vloggers, bloggers, bands, artist, cinematographers, photographers and the likes to step up and lend their voices, eyes and ears for talent. help create a new means of participation, threw social media sharing that can not go unnoticed. also there are tons of open avenues to get on TV for free. whether it be background, audience or fan. people need to start showing support in public events daily. OWS bandaids or something. gogogogo gl great job. the media can not continue to ignore us. hit those pages let them know. post and repost tweet and rt obv. start respectably commenting on other topics @cnn etc with injections...
Exactly. You guys have enough people in this movement that there has got to be a lot who have skills such as this. You guys need to work on #Logistics.
One picture to explain:
http://www.root.no/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/thanks_corporate_news.jpg
they are well aware but nobody has been able to co-opt the thing so they can't nail down a packaged narrative. don't stress it. OWS been the first thing on the tongues of every msnbc show so far this morning.
Yes, but people don't understand the gravity of this movement. Most people sitting at home watching the news are under the assumption that it is just you guys protesting about something. They don't know this is global.
http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/16/8353162-sunday-first-hour
also flooding mainstream media articles' comments sections with links or pseudo-links (like so: occupywallstreetdotorg) to truthful articles until your screenname gets banned, is another strategy...
I like that one. Also flooding their facebooks and twitters with links as well. But also I was thinking stressing the companies themselves. Phone calls, emails. Why not stand outside the good morning america building and just chant with thousands of people while they're filming their show. I remember seeing protesters in the background of that a few months ago.
I highly agree. CNN has been very obviously ignoring you guys all evening long. They talk about the protests in general, but they have ignored the incredibly historic gathering that took place today in NYC. As if it never happened. Occupy the Media, indeed!!!!
who needs CBS when you have cameras?
http://youtu.be/quAK3PKQUZc
Its also time to go after some major brands we "assume" are American or have roots in the younger gen scene. Nike will not listen unless we get major global support. Puma would listen for sure. Vans only one that still has US office but all are made outside US. Show these types what you are about and the media and many others in the very powerful retail industry will listen. Cry out for Puma/Vans to offer US made products. TO bring sales forces back to the people. Vans uses your heros to pimp its products. Hit their pages and sway them to stand up for you. These guys were all artist on the streets one day. Get together, mass off loading of one brand. Organize media event that we no longer at this time support said brand. "Take off your chains" have all shoes dropped off in protest sent to 3rd world country or salvation army,
Great post
Exactly right. Also, media are controlled by the 1% so we should expect much, if any, true help there. Consequently, it has to be a word of mouth movement using email, facebook, etc. And we need ACTIONS that WORK, not mere words.
In that regard, many more people will come to your side when you are proactive (for “new” Business & Government solutions), instead of reactive (against “old” Business & Government solutions), which is why what we most immediately need is a comprehensive “new” strategy that implements all our various socioeconomic demands at the same time, regardless of party, and although I'm all in favor of taking down today's ineffective and inefficient Top 10% Management System of Business & Government, there's only one way to do it – by fighting bankers as bankers ourselves; that is, using a Focused Direct Democracy organized according to our current Occupations & Generations. Consequently, I have posted a 1-page Summary of the Strategically Weighted Policies, Organizational Operating Structures, and Tactical Investment Procedures necessary to do this at:
http://getsatisfaction.com/americanselect/topics/on_strategic_legal_policy_organizational_operational_structures_tactical_investment_procedures
Join
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/StrategicInternationalSystems/
because we need 100,000 “support clicks” at AmericansElect.org to support a Presidential Candidate -- such as any given political opportunist you'd like to draft -- in support of the above bank-focused platform.
Most importantly, remember, as cited in the first link, that as Bank Owner-Voters in your 1 of 48 "new" Business Investment Groups (or "new" Congressional Committees) you become the "new" Congress replacing the "old" Congress according to your current Occupation & Generation, called a Focused Direct Democracy.
Therefore, any Candidate (or Leader) therein, regardless of party, is a straw man, a puppet; it's the STRATEGY – the sequence of steps – that the people organize themselves under, in Military Internet Formation of their Individual Purchasing & Group Investment Power, that's important. In this, sequence is key.
Why? Because there are Natural Social Laws – in mathematical sequence – that are just like Natural Physical Laws, such as the Law of Gravity. You must follow those Natural Social Laws or the result will be Injustice, War, etc.
The FIRST step in Natural Social Law is to CONTROL the Banks as Bank Owner-Voters. If you do not, you will inevitably be UNJUSTLY EXPLOITED by the Top 10% Management Group of Business & Government who have a Legitimate Profit Motive, just like you, to do so.
Consequently, you have no choice but to become Candidates (or Leaders) yourselves as Bank Owner-Voters according to your current Occupation & Generation.
So please JOIN the 2nd link so we can make our support clicks at AmericansElect.org when called for, at exactly the right time, by an e-mail from that group, in support of the above the bank-focused platform. If so, then you will see and feel how your goals can be accomplished within the above strategy as a “new” Candidate (or Leader) of your current Occupation & Generation.
..and when there is coverage, you are met with violence and arrest. Its time to take our country by force..throwing a tantrum like little kids won't work. Extreme? Yes. But don't you think it's time?
Violence is not the answer. Yet. Let them throw the first punches. I'm basically a non-violent person, but I must admit sometimes violence is the only thing some people understand. Such is the human condition.
Since youtube is reportedly censoring videos of the protests, I suggest a webite dedicated soley to the pictures and videos of the Occupations around the world. Who else agrees?
we need people with video editing skills and talents to make new vids out of all the media. use creative ways to inject messages. like top 40s songs with collages. try omitting any mention of OWS in titles or file names. create how toos for everything you can think of as well. be sure to like and link and tag other peps vids. bloggers need to really open up here and get involved when reviewing bands and anything else also. great time to take advantage of another video hosting site as well.
That would be great...but noone outside the movement will bother to see it. If we don't put it in their face, it doesn't exist.
Since youtube is reportedly censoring videos of the protests, I suggest a webite dedicated soley to the pictures and videos of the Occupations around the world. Who else agrees?
we need a list of twitters, facebooks, and #hashtags of all the media, for all to occupy daily with our voice and opinions.
link it up and pass along
http://twitter.com/#!/cnnbrk (that's their breaking news twitter, I thought it would be appropriate) http://twitter.com/#!/CNN http://twitter.com/#!/foxnews http://twitter.com/msnbc
those are the big ones. I would post more but I have to get to work
We need to set up our own media outlets. My team and I are setting one up at Occupy Resistance Network http://www.occupyr.com/ . The news is aggregated from various sources on the web.
we need a message! there is no message. just the same old equivocation over and over again.
the everyday person gets tired of that! people want to see progress! not just a bunch of folks dicking around arguing over what we're supposed to protest!
also if you can find air-writing pilots who support the movement, they might do a job for you, complimentary
has anyone thought of utilizing ham radio operators? they're like the last vestiges of indepedent, non-corporate radio left on the air... i have no idea what they can do or what their reach is, but maybe its worth looking into?
News running by blogs :
http://october2011.org/blogs/kevin-zeese/global-revolt-continues-indignados-reach-paris-wall-street-occupied
We are protesting their parent companies. It would astound me if we got a fair shake in the press.
I hope people abandon the mass media. But until then, I agree completely.
More than one month ! And nothing...
I agree. There is definitly a media blackout occurring.
Truely ! We don't hear anything unless violent acts.
Or lude acts. Apparently you guys defecate in public.
No , isn't a member of Occupying Wall street, try to get good informations...
I know its probably not true. But that is what the news is repeating.
http://www.root.no/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/thanks_corporate_news.jpg
exactly... cnn highlighted the violence in rome
An some violent arrets in Germany but, no reasons explaining the contest of the movement :
http://www.junge-freiheit.de/
French Switzerland speaking about :
http://www.tsr.ch/
Thx for the new source =). But it is blacked out in the mass media, which as suggested by its name is where the masses get their news. That's the central problem. I mean look at how many people you guys have with the mass media bashing you. Imagine if you had a way to get your word out massively.
Its not blacked out on RT-USA. It gets daily coverage there on all its programs. Its the only TV outlet that does this movement justice.
check it out: Keiser report and the Alyona show have covered it from day 1.
http://rt.com/usa/
They make the MSM look like the absolute disgrace that they are.
Their programs are on Youtube too