The Occupy Movement has grown into a global movement thanks to the impact of social media and globalization. Persons from the United States to Japan have taken to the streets to protest the growing gap between the poor and the rich; the 1% rich vs the 99%. I became interested late last year when these protests picked up steam and I have been following it ever since but I have noticed something. The occupy movement is no doubt huge and something that is imposing and showing change in the way people think so with something this huge you'd think it'll be all over BBC and CNN and any major news station but guess what... Nothing. I mean absolutely nothing is being covered on this occupy movement. No footage is being shown of the protest, police brutalities and the fights for equality. Why?
Maybe because some of the main themes of occupy are things like this:
Or this:
All themes that attack major corporations and question who owns the power. This brings into question, who owns the media? Who has the power here to decide that this movement which is questioning and criticizing large corporate powers, is not important enough to receive worldwide coverage. After all if something is not covered by the media then it does not exist. CNN is a large, international news network which is owned by Ted Turner a media mogul who also is affiliated which television channels like Cartoon Network and TNT. He is no doubt part of what occupy refers to as the 1%. Why would the media cover any movement which threatens to question the dominant powers when media itself is part of these large corporations which people are ranting and raving about? That's right, they won't. It is not part of their agenda and the media itself is one of the socializing agents of society so they won't air material that allows for the questioning of society's set social structure. The media itself can be used to inform but also to censor and twist things to suit the agenda of the elite. Remember the videos which came out about Guantanamo Bay and the torture prisoners went through which was not aired in the US until a long while after the controversy had exploded? Why was it not aired, because the media itself is owned by persons who are in high positions in society and if they want to make something none existent to the public they can simply not cover it, like the occupy movement.
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Media,
News,
occupy,
social media
The Coverage of the 99%... Oh wait, what coverage?
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