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A Reflection on the Media Coverage of the 99% Movement.
Worlwide Unity
It feels like we are living historic moments – a movement originating in North Africa, spreading across the Middle East, and which has come to turn things upside down in the western Hemisphere.
These waves of revolutions, spilling over from a country to another, have now formed an ocean of people who demand accountability, democracy and transparency.
This is, undeniably, the single most important event in our entire history, with so many people on the planet doing the same thing, at the same time.
Well…it’s not the first time – there was World War II. The difference? This time – they are not fighting against each other, but they are united – effectively putting this happening way above any other.
What is strange however, is that instead of covering just that – a global movement of self-awareness (in 82 countries - covering more that 950 cities!), a world brotherhood among citizens with a single purpose: to re-claim their due power in order to end global injustice - of any form, traditional media are still stuck with covering the same petty things over and over. It’s a shame really – they’re passing by the most amazing movement of our history and instead of discussing what implications and impact this will have on world politics and the state of our democracies – it feels like they're purposely choosing to be missing the point.
It’s a good thing that the days of relying on a print newspaper and a television anchor telling us "the way it is" are long gone – right? Right!