{"id":7756,"date":"2011-10-03T10:14:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T17:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=7756"},"modified":"2011-10-03T10:20:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T17:20:24","slug":"our-whorish-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=7756","title":{"rendered":"Our Whorish Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/roarmag.org\/2011\/10\/how-the-new-york-times-manipulated-blame-for-mass-arrests\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7754\" title=\"nyt_1\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/nyt_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/nyt_1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/nyt_1-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/nyt_1-450x324.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hard to read, I know, so here&#8217;s what the highlighted sections say:<\/p>\n<p>First version, published Saturday 1 Oct at 6:59 PM Eastern:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After allowing them onto the bridge, the police cut off and arrested dozens of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Revised version, published Saturday 1 Oct at 7:19 PM Eastern:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a tense showdown over the East River, police arrested hundreds of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators after they marched onto the bridge&#8217;s Brooklyn-bound roadway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee, who do you supposed called the publisher of the New York Times at 7:00PM Eastern?  The police commissioner &#8230; or the CEO of Goldman Sachs?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the video (including the by-now-famous arrest of the girl in the cap, starting at about 7:25):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fockzr7rXys\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/sittingamongstclouds.tumblr.com\/post\/10948342387\">girl in the cap<\/a>, you ask?  Contrary to earlier reports (mostly posted to Twitter by other demonstrators on the bridge as events were unfolding), she wasn&#8217;t 13 or 14.  She&#8217;s 18, and her name is Katie.  I think she&#8217;s about to become the face of a movement:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/sittingamongstclouds.tumblr.com\/post\/10948342387\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7762\" title=\"occupy wall street_1\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/occupy-wall-street_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/occupy-wall-street_1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/occupy-wall-street_1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/occupy-wall-street_1-450x299.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wonder, do you think <a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/2011\/10\/02\/is-npr-really-covering-the-wall-street-protests\/\">NPR has touched this story<\/a> yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard to read, I know, so here&#8217;s what the highlighted sections say: First version, published Saturday 1 Oct at 6:59 PM Eastern: After allowing them onto the bridge, the police cut off and arrested dozens of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators. Revised version, published Saturday 1 Oct at 7:19 PM Eastern: In a tense showdown over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[318,317,41,316,286],"class_list":["post-7756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-media","tag-girl-in-the-cap","tag-new-york-times","tag-npr","tag-nypd","tag-occupy-wall-street"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7756"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7768,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756\/revisions\/7768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}