Reply #21: The New York Times has been spinning tales for over a week now. [View All]

[PotatoChip]

I've been following this protest from day one. I've also been scanning what the Times had to say about it from day one as well.

In the beginning the Times offered up only one of two paragraphs buried deep inside their publication, the gist of which was to basically poo-poo the whole Occupy Wall Street thing.

Then throughout the week, I searched mostly in vain for more. They had one short blurb, again buried deep, at about mid-week. In that "article" the emphasis was mostly about how the protest numbers were dwindling.

Then finally on Sunday, the day after the macing incident, 3 articles more prominently displayed. I was only able to read one since apparently NYT only allows 20 free online articles p/month before they make you 'subscibe'... iow pay.

At any rate, this article was an extremely unflattering view of the OWS people. They picked out and 'interviewed' the biggest kooks and/or flakiest people in the bunch. It was a very condescending peek at this movement. If I hadn't known better, and was going only on that Times article, I would have thought it was a bunch of spoiled white kids w/no real comprehensive goal who were "role playing" at activism.

And now this article... I guess the Times can no longer ignore the OWS people so they've resorted to 'spinning' what actually happened on Saturday. I was watching live streaming of that event from several different camera views. At no time did I see any of the protesters push anyone as the OP's Times article makes it sound. It wasn't some type of mutual aggression between protesters and police. The aggression I saw came from one side only and that was from the cops. Mostly the 'white-shirted' ones.

And yes, there were "Some rough people out there" but I guarantee the woman who was quoted meant some of the cops and ONLY some of the cops.