From the Occupy Wall Street chart:
Quote:"Media ignores occupations for other a month then ridicules them"
Overall, media reaction, both from just-the-facts-ma'am reporters and from staff columnists, has been respectful, generally positive, and oftentimes sympathetic to their cause.
This is just a sampling of one large market - Detroit. These pieces tend to read like a homer sports guy on the beat covering the local football team. (
here,
here,
here, and
here)
A quote from the first link: "Either way, there is a sense of hope and energy and concern about the future that ought to be seen as healthy." Hardly ridicule. Another quote: "The 100 or so residents of Occupy Detroit have different backgrounds and varying political beliefs." I'm calling BS on this one. Varying political beliefs? Unless they mean "sorta left" and "very left" as two distinct ideologies.
Meanwhile last spring, talkingheads from Olbermann to Krugman decided to position Jared Loughner, Gifford's shooter, as someone directly influenced by right-wing talk radio and Palin's "target" map, despite
zero evidence, in an effort to stifle conservative arguments and squelch any disagreement as 'rhetoric' and 'uncivil discourse'.
Anyhow, outside of some overtly conservative columnists and bloggers, the media hasn't been hostile to the OWS protests at all. Quite the opposite, actually.