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By Noel Sheppard | December 16, 2011 | 11:50

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For months NewsBusters has been reporting the absurd double standard regarding media's coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement versus the Tea Party.

On Friday, Congressman Lamar Smith (R-Tx.) wrote an op-ed for Accuracy in Media concerning this matter asking, "Why have the mainstream media vilified the peaceful Tea Party all the while praising and celebrating Occupy Wall Street despite violence, clashes with police, and general lawlessness?":

Tea Party organizations and rallies were initially ignored by the press and then dismissed as radical zealots as the Occupy Wall Street crowd was immediately recognized as leading the voice of “the 99%.”

Our national media should be held accountable for their performance, just like any other institution. We need to remind the media of their profound obligation to provide the American people with the facts, rather than tell them what to think.

The Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party movements may both have legitimate grievances with our country, but distorting their images does not move us towards positive solutions. We can work together to increase awareness of bias in the media and encourage Americans to confront it and demand fair reporting.


Hear, hear!

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they are held accountable

Submitted by oldfart on Fri, 12/16/2011 - 12:01pm.

take a look at the ratings.
ratings = revenue
that is the only thing they understand

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” – Marcus Aurelius
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Simple Answer Congressman

Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Fri, 12/16/2011 - 12:15pm.

The Tea Party is conservative. The OWS is liberal. Who do you thing the LSM is going to coddle? And God forbit a conservative news source called the OWS vile names like everyoone from media talking heads to elected officials did to the Tea Party (Tea-Baggers)...

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Delete Double Post

Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Fri, 12/16/2011 - 12:22pm.

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Opinion Makers

Submitted by pockets64 on Fri, 12/16/2011 - 12:36pm.

The MSM faces bill themselves as "Opinion Makers." I'll make my own opinion, thank you. Just give me the facts.

As others have said, no wonder their ratings are in the tank.

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It's the msm playbook...

Submitted by swenk22 on Fri, 12/16/2011 - 1:16pm.

Vilify anything they don't agree with... promote what serves them... instead of accurately portraying the news.

One interesting exercise- it's not just msm... the wikipedia entry for teaparty is minimal with like no positives and barley mentions the hundreds of thousands attending rallies... but big paragraph on all the supposed "racist and negatives".

Check the Occupy wiki and it's like a glowing report with tons of input and references and barley mentions the negatives way down the list as "police actions" as if the police were the problem.

And they wonder why FoxNews is popular... the one outlet that tells both sides...

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