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Questioning Media’s Expectations: Occupy
This is my little rant on media’s questions on Occupy on its first anniversary: Has Occupy achieved any meaningful change so far? Why has it failed? Is it dead? See, for those who have been engaged in Occupy in all its many forms, this process has been an ongoing one where we are not only learning to work together (imagine politicians having to learn this, how long would it take them???), but we also learning to inform ourselves and others. I think most of us who are engaged, have ONLY started to make sense of what is happening not only in Canada, but also globally. (So the expectations that Occupy would have achieved some magical systemic change by now would be like expecting a science student to come up with the next technology that would rid our dependency from oil within a year…) Say Occupy made it into government in the form of a committee, for the sake of argument. Would media have expected Occupy to balance federal budget within a year? But… such expectations are not even applied to governments! So why the double standards? Media and reporters are so quick to point out Occupy’s “failures” while not [...]
2012-09-22 09:49:44
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