By Henry McRandall
WRISEUP.COM
For nigh a year and a half now, the North American mass media have fed us a daily diet of aggressive coverage of, first, the so-called Arab Spring and, later, the uprisings in numerous other countries – on other continents.
But now that the nascent global mass uprisings are beginnig to hit home, especially with the OWS (Occupy Wall Street) protests, the mainstream media have bent over backwards to avoid giving any coverage.
It is only since the protests have entered their third week and spread to more than 100 U.S. cities, at least eight Canadian cities and at least 149 cities in at least 12 countries, that the mass media has felt compelled to provide some begrudging coverage.
But the scant coverage they have provided has been extremely negative, going so far as to depict the peaceful protesters as “hippies,” “anarchists,” “rioters” and “thugs,” none of which epithets is apt. read more »