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The Spectacle Blog
I knew there was some reason I still read Newsweek. The latest issue has a little nugget: “Faces of Outrage: Two days and 18 protesters around New York’s Zuccotti Park, the heart of Occupy Wall Street.” The article has pictures, names, and occupations for 18 OWS protesters.
If the aim is to “normalize” the protests, Newsweek failed. If it’s to show them as a cross-section of weirdos and hippies, the news magazine was successful. Uproariously so.
The most interesting part is occupiers’ occupations. These include “unemployed,” “cancer survivor,” “scholar/magician,” “student,” “fair-trade activist,” and “philosopher-writer.”
Surviving cancer is laudable, but it makes for a lousy occupation. Ditto fair-trade activist and philosopher-writer, at least if you want to pay the bills. (Obviously, many OWS protesters aren’t into that sort of thing, at least not by the sweat of their own brows.) Being a scholar-magician sounds more interesting — seems to be Paul Krugman’s life calling. He’s good at conjuring up numbers and fooling the masses.
Thank you, Newsweek, for reaffirming my faith in your publication.
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Al Adab| 10.31.11 @ 4:46PM
Who pays the salaries for the community organizers fomenting these events?
This will get them all warmed up for the conventions next summer. Expect it, it won't be pretty.
Trinacria| 10.31.11 @ 6:46PM
Regrettably, AA, you and I do (in the form of various community support "grants" to "community action networks" and "human rights" scam organizations).
Occam's Tool| 10.31.11 @ 5:25PM
A scholar magician? Like Dr. Stephen Strange?
solidground| 10.31.11 @ 5:33PM
I suggest that one conservative philanthropist or another buy out the latest Newsweek issue and ship all the copies to the various OWS sites for use as toilet paper--even if it means granting the magazine a higher prestige than it is due. Defining down journalistic standards has been the MO for both Newsweek and Time for a couple of decades now. Both have morphed into something less than a poorly written and overwrought third-rate comic book.
Tina B| 10.31.11 @ 6:12PM
Hey, they've got occupations, they're occupying Wall Street.
I'm so funny I forgot to laugh.
Trinacria| 10.31.11 @ 6:48PM
Hah! The one, single, unmistakable common thread between all "occupations" cited by the OWS participants: THEY PAY NOTHING!
bluecollarbytes| 10.31.11 @ 8:28PM
I always look for the 6 month-old Newsweek at the doctor's office. It can be a comfort.
Occupiers can't last the winter. Maybe they can come back in the spring like the Taliban.
Solo| 10.31.11 @ 8:46PM
Oh....they'll be back in the Spring, alright. You can bet your Union Dues on that!
This OWS scam is as contrived as it gets. No one....and I mean NO ONE... can be so stupid as to believe that Wall Street is the source of our problems.
Wall Street is the ultimate "democracy". It's the one place that you can go and by force of Mob Rule carve out for yourself a heaping-helping of someone else's money. All you have to do is get enough people to "vote" with their dollars and.."Presto!"...you can literally create profit out of trash.
All you need is the initiative and a bit of education, luck and perhaps an inside track and you can get everything you want.
If you want to protest the concept of "un-fairness", then go to Washington and protest those feckless bastards in Congress. Because, with the force of government undermining you, it doesn't matter how smart you are, or how hard you work or whether or not you 'play by the rules'. All that matters is who you know and can you leverage that into law so as to put in the "fix" for your own benefit while frustrating the efforts and interests of the masses.
THAT...is the process they should be protesting!
Alice Moore| 11.1.11 @ 8:41AM
It would have been far more savvy on Newsweek's part to feature those in everyday professions; for example, an employee of a medium size business' IT team or an assistant manager in a retail environment. The average reader could relate to this. There may be only 1.8 of the protesters that fit that description. In the past the MSM would have scrounged up coat and tie members of the OWS movement for a feature.
We can all take this as a good sign. The MSM may be so full of delusion that they couldn't propagandize to the Average Joe or Jane if they tried.
albert constantine jr.| 11.1.11 @ 9:00AM
How ironic that people who have “professions” rejected by the marketplace (as far as determining compensation) want to re-configure the market to re-distribute to themselves the wealth that others that the markets (or “life’s lottery” as they like to suggest) rewarded.
WB| 11.1.11 @ 1:51PM
Yes, it would be equivalent to a group of people with absolutely no economic sense, moral sense or even common sense running a country and telling its citizenry how they should spend their money and run their lives (oops! I think I just described the US Congress ...)
NotPropagandized| 11.1.11 @ 12:39PM
Newsweek doesn't anymore want OWS to upset their figurative socialistic comfort system than to let them roam their offices. Newsweek is just one of a plethora of counter-capitalist-civilization sources that wishes for something all the while hoping it won't actually get it. Socialism in practice is brutal and we're seeing samples of that from Obama's quiet intra-administrative coup d etat. The establishment left makes a lot of money off of leftists which include some very wealthy trust fund kids who are even more ignorant of the brutality of socialism in practice.
Newsweek likes the comfortable status quo from with it can hurl its spears in safety.