{"id":7860,"date":"2011-09-22T08:03:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T13:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=7860"},"modified":"2011-09-22T08:10:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T13:10:18","slug":"olbermann-calls-out-media-hypocrisy-on-%e2%80%98occupy-wall-street%e2%80%99-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/09\/22\/olbermann-calls-out-media-hypocrisy-on-%e2%80%98occupy-wall-street%e2%80%99-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Olbermann calls out media hypocrisy on \u2018Occupy Wall Street\u2019 protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article from Rawstory, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rawreplay\/2011\/09\/olbermann-calls-out-media-hypocrisy-on-occupy-wall-street-protest\/\" title=\"Rawstory article\" target=\"_blank\">Olbermann calls out media hypocrisy on \u2018Occupy Wall Street\u2019 protest<\/a><\/strong>, provided the following quote and video clip.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nKeith Olbermann pointed out Wednesday night on Countdown that the major newspapers had been ignoring the five-day-long \u201cOccupy Wall Street\u201d protests, but would have scrambled to cover a similar-sized tea party protest.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&#038;isUI=1\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=1174765049001&#038;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fcurrent.com%2Fshows%2Fcountdown%2Fvideos%2Fwill-bunch-author-of-the-backlash-on-mainstream-medias-failure-to-cover-wall-street-protests&#038;playerID=1040141195001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAA3B3xrZk~,HJshEnrCBsRvDMbCheku3Pjss6-I6ruG&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&#038;isUI=1\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashVars=\"videoId=1174765049001&#038;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fcurrent.com%2Fshows%2Fcountdown%2Fvideos%2Fwill-bunch-author-of-the-backlash-on-mainstream-medias-failure-to-cover-wall-street-protests&#038;playerID=1040141195001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAA3B3xrZk~,HJshEnrCBsRvDMbCheku3Pjss6-I6ruG&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<pre>\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>I think this is about the third time I have made a blog post about this protest.  I have also previously noted the lack of coverage in the main stream press.<\/p>\n<p>The two previous posts are <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/09\/20\/days-of-rage-occupy-wall-st\/\" title=\"Previous post\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cDays of Rage\u201d Occupy Wall St.<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/09\/20\/occupy-wall-street-organizer-republicans-are-the-ones-waging-class-warfare\/\" title=\"Previous post\" target=\"_blank\">Occupy Wall Street organizer: Republicans are the ones waging class warfare<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article from Rawstory, Olbermann calls out media hypocrisy on \u2018Occupy Wall Street\u2019 protest, provided the following quote and video clip. Keith Olbermann pointed out Wednesday night on Countdown that the major newspapers had been ignoring the five-day-long \u201cOccupy Wall Street\u201d protests, but would have scrambled to cover a similar-sized tea party protest. I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7862,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860\/revisions\/7862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}