Greece Riots and how CNBC is framing them.

[Skip_In_Boulder]

You have got to check out this video and hear how the CNBC reporter opens the segment about the riots. My jaw about dropped but it looks like this might be how the corporate media will start framing all of OWS. Thoughts?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44955899/ns/world_news-europe/#.Tp7003LNQrg

[livetohike]

1. The entire CNBC crowd are a bunch of asses

I saw that segment this morning and my first thought was that the reporter didn't know she was on air at the time. Everyone in the studio just let it go....but I'm sure they were nodding in agreement.

[Skip_In_Boulder]

3. Yeah but the thing that concerns me

Is the underlying message in her opening is, "See America, complete social breakdown will be coming to you in the near future if we don't do something about these lefty radicals". This rising up of the people, which is in fact world-wide now, could get real nasty much sooner than I expected.

[livetohike]

4. That's what the media is hoping it becomes, imo. They

look for the sensational and can't wait for a riot to begin here. It's sickening.

[crazylikafox]

7. That reporter knew she was on the air when she said that.

She talks like that all the time. She's a walking talking nasty piece of shit. Total Ann Rand devotee. She doesn't have an ounce of understanding or compassion in her entire body. I usually turn on the teevee in the AM to catch the financial news, but I have to turn it off whenever she comes on. CNBC was never very good, but since Mark Haines died, it's degenerated into total Tea Party propaganda 99% of the time.

[Skip_In_Boulder]

9. I have never seen that skank before

But there is no doubt that she knew she was live. This isn't one of those blooper things.

[RKP5637]

2. CNBC is a tool of wall street and the banksters and the 1%. I'm not

surprised. MSM / Corp. Media needs to be bypassed, it's twisted and propagandistic reporting at its best IMO. It's so sad so many turn their boob tube to MSM and think it's valid news, it's just a propaganda tool.

[Quantess]

5. Shameless commentary.

But I would think that anyone seeing that would say to themselves, first and foremost,"Wow! Those are very pissed-off people!" They have reason to be.

[Skip_In_Boulder]

6. Well rational people would

But right now America has a real shortage of "rational people"

[RKP5637]

8. Yep, Rational People = are a rare and endangered species in the "new" America. n/t

[LooseWilly]

10. CNBC is news for bankers/investors... sympathy for the bankers imposing austerity is to be expected

... just as disdain for those who are resisting austerity (a nice euphemism for the reaching of bankers'/investors' hands into peoples' pockets) is also to be expected.

—How dare that rabble resist the system imposed upon them, within the framework of which they will be paid from the funds remaining after the investors' profits are first paid? Don't they understand the priorities of a civilized society? ...

[Cal Carpenter]

11. Even you are referring to it as riots rather than strikes

It's a general strike that was met with police force and has become violent.

Not criticizing you personally, but just pointing it out.

[Skip_In_Boulder]

13. No you're right

[Cal Carpenter]

14. It's really difficult

Just knowing that most of what we hear is propaganda isn't really enough to get our brains and our word choices to change. It's a constant effort.

Sure there are some people in Greece today with a militant frame of mind, ready to throw rocks and molotov cocktails at the riot police and whatnot. It is good to talk and think about those tactics and when/where/if they are appropriate.

But the vast majority of the action today is in the strike itself, the peaceful withholding of labor by the working class. That is what is making the most powerful impact there.

[Skip_In_Boulder]

15. It is a constant effort

I have studied propaganda techniques since the mid sixties and about 10 years ago came to a conclusion that was really frighting. So I put it on the back burner to think about it for awhile but about five years ago I came across an essay by a PhD on the east coast who had come to the same conclusion. The conclusion was, which the professor clearly wrote about, was that the propaganda is so good these days that one can be very well educated in it and have a lot of experience working with it, but just the same can still be just as susceptible to it as everybody else.

The fact is propaganda use to be pretty much an art form but today it is a science and a very frighteningly accurate science.

[AntiFascist]

12. "Welfare state"...

isn't that what we are to the banks?