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America's Media War on OWS

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America's Media War on OWS - Stephen Lendman

Efforts to marginalize OWS.

Early reporting was scant, dismissive, and offensive. Much still belittles, denigrates and marginalizes a significant movement.

Fox News claims protesters don't pay taxes or know what they want, are supported by Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei and Hugo Chavez, and represent the lunatic left wing.

Bill O'Reilly quipped, "Do we have all kinds of crackheads down there." He added that Zuccotti Park is "dirty and filthy. There's rats running all over. There's dope all over the place. They're having sex outside at night and all of this stuff."

Fox News reporter Charles Gasparino accused protesters of embracing "communism and there is no doubt about it."

New York Times former executive editor Bill Keller ignored global activism in a column about "good news," asking, "Bored by the soggy sleep-ins and warmed-over anarchism of Occupy Wall Street?"

Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer called protesters "indignant indolents saddled with their $50,000 student loans and English degrees (wanting to) "eat the rich."

Despite occasional better reporting, much resembles Telegraph writer Nile Gardiner's article about "the decline and fall of Occupy Wall Street," saying:

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