The difference between mainstream media coverage of "Occupy Wall Street" and the Tea Party movement has been most interesting and instructive. Ditto the rhetoric coming out of the White House and Congress.
Has anybody else noticed this?
Typical MSM coverage of OWS:
Compared to how the media covered the Tea Party events:
What do you think? The groups are similar? Dissimilar? Are the Tea Partiers the hateful, unsmiling, unhumorous ones as the Left wants to depict them? Or are the OWS groups similar to the Marxist uprising of the new Bosheviks that some are seeing?
Has anybody else noticed this?
Typical MSM coverage of OWS:
Warren compares Occupy Wall St., at this stage of its life, to the nascent Tea Party, when protesters were seeking a vehicle through which to express frustration with the Obama administration.
What's different here? "The Tea Party seemed to be a movement of older Americans, more conservative, whiter," he says. OWS protesters "are younger, more diverse." They've got a sense of humor and they play better music. Some protesters Monday dressed as zombies so that financial workers could "see us reflecting the metaphor of their actions," according to OWS spokesman Patrick Bruner.
"I was down there yesterday," says Warren, en route to making his second visit to lower Manhattan to observe the goings-on today, "and what surprised me was how festive the atmosphere was. Nobody would describe a Tea Party meeting as festive."
Occupy Wall Street Declaration Says What New York Protesters Want - ABC News
Compared to how the media covered the Tea Party events:
Despite their efforts to drive a critical narrative of the occupy protests, though, tea partiers mostly have been disappointed by the mainstream media coverage, particularly when compared with what they contend was highly negative early coverage of the tea parties.
Few of the photos, videos and intelligence gathered by conservatives have gotten wide play.
Steinhauser of FreedomWorks, a top tea party group, has been among the organizers encouraging activists to record and disseminate untoward behavior by liberals, but he says hes been frustrated by the lack of pickup outside the conservative echo chamber.
Im not getting any media calls except from folks asking how we compare to the Wall Street protest, he said, conceding that the approach hes preaching to discredit the Occupy protests echoes that which the left used against the tea party.
The means that were using are the same. The difference is that we dont have ABC, CBS and NBC reporting all this stuff, he said. Part of it is that the left is more effective at it, but part of it is that the journalists appear to be in the tank. If this stuff was happening at tea parties, it would be the leading story on all the networks.
Tea party disappointed by OWS coverage - On Media - POLITICO.com
What do you think? The groups are similar? Dissimilar? Are the Tea Partiers the hateful, unsmiling, unhumorous ones as the Left wants to depict them? Or are the OWS groups similar to the Marxist uprising of the new Bosheviks that some are seeing?