Sunday, October 16, 2011

Occupy Omaha World-Herald coverage:
What would the Tea Party say?

Rick Ruggles, the reporter assigned by the World-Herald to cover Saturday's Occupy Omaha festivities, chose to frame his article with reactions from the 20 or so Tea Party crashers who smirked from the sidelines at the 900-1000 Occupy Omaha participants.
     Ruggles completely ignored the fact that, unlike the spontaneously-combusted Occupy Wall Street movement, the Tea Party movement was mostly organized by "Astro Turf" front groups working with or under Richard Armey and David Koch and fueled by Fox News cheerleading.
     The World-Herald's coverage included a three-column photograph of an obese Tea Partier beside a snarky and irrelevant sign reading: "Capitalism works if you do!!!"
     The World-Herald either deliberately or incompetently missed the righteous indignation which caused 1,000 people in Omaha to hit the bricks.
     Compare that to KOLN-KGIN's intelligent, to-the-point, no-spin coverage of Occupy Lincoln:

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