Keith Olbermann pointed out Wednesday night on Countdown that the major newspapers had been ignoring the five-day-long “Occupy Wall Street” protests, but would have scrambled to cover a similar-sized tea party protest.
“Why isn’t any major news outlet covering this?” he asked. “If that’s a tea party protest in front of Wall Street about Ben Bernanke putting stimulus funds into it, it’s the lead story on every network news cast. How is that disconnect possible in this country today with so many different outlets and so many different ways of transmitting news?”
His guest, author Will Bunch, suggested the disconnect was caused in part by the news networks being out of touch with the pain of the 25 million Americans who are unemployed.
Watch video, courtesy of Current TV, below:
The Guardian newspaper in London is following this protest and in an article there they say that this protest is attracting attention from around the world... [just none here]. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/sep/21/occupy-wall-street-protests?INTCMP=SRCH
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