The Pew Research Center finds that the Occupy Wall Street movement had its best week yet in news coverage.
“Last week, the U.S. economy was the No. 1 story at 22% of the newshole, with the majority of that coverage focused on the confrontations between protesters, law enforcement, and the city governments that preside over the public spaces that have become encampments. All totaled, the Occupy Wall Street story accounted for 13% of the overall newshole during the week of November 14-20… That coverage marked a major spike from the week before when media attention to the protests had dropped to just 1% of the newshole. It surpassed even the week of October 10-16, when the protests, largely focused on income inequality, filled 10% of the newshole as the demonstrations expanded around the country and partisans began turning it into a major political issue.”
So thanks Police and City Governments, the more you attack them, the more coverage they get.
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) has asked Google to institute a new system on their Blogger publishing platform where readers can flag “terrorist content.” Joe Lieberman, I hope you burn forever in Hell you fascist asshole. Your retirement can’t come soon enough. And talk about something that will be completely ineffective. Republicans will flag Democratic content as terrorist content, and we will be forced to do the same to Republican content. So, basically, Joe Lieberman just wants more flame wars on the internet.
Michele Bachmann is somehow on the House Intelligence Committee. There, she is privy to classified information. She is also running for President. Last night at the 138th GOP Debate, she leaked classified information about Pakistan’s 15 nuclear sites being vulnerable to terrorist attack, and that six of them had already come under some form of terrorist attack. The National Journal says the new facts “represent either a news-making leak of previously unknown classified information or another in her recent series of seemingly-random, and highly inaccurate, public comments.” A full investigation will be required, and if it is proven true that Ms. Bachmann breached our national security by leaking this information, she will have to be jailed.
