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Occupy report in The Daily Mail

Info | 16.10.2011 19:05 | Occupy Everywhere | Culture | Public sector cuts | Workers' Movements

Some context about the Occupy movement as reported in the right-wing newspaper The Daily Mail. The Daily Mail is a/ hard-right b/ virulently pro-capitalist c/ sells over 2 million copies, so reports like this are absolute gold-dust - all the more so for preaching to the UN-converted and through not originating in the radical press.

"In light of the Occupy Wall Street demonstration taking place in downtown New York- and those of similar persuasions across the USA - the country's richest one per cent are a very unpopular group right about now. Making for more trouble, Forbes just released the list of the wealthiest 25 CEOs, and their earning numbers are astronomical. The amount of money that the country's top ten wealthiest CEOs make in one year is enough to pay the salary of 18,330 average Americans" -

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049405/Meet-Americas-10-highest-paid-bosses-Forbes-list-wealthiest-CEOs.html

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Yes& the top tenCEO's are below families like the Walmarts& Rockefellers

16.10.2011 23:30

daily mail is still intolerant on some social issues, though mixed in it does have interesting health writers& though it supported nazis in around WW2& until the 1990s supported nazi holocaust revisioninsts publishing alot of work by David Irving, its acknowledged openly& repeatedly in the last ten years its hatred of nazism& fascism.

johnny


What are you talking about

17.10.2011 09:18

The Daily Mail is a newspaper that writes lies and scare stories about immigration and immigrants then will write a piece damning the BNP for doing exactly the same to give themselves a bit of credibilaty. The Daily Mail are more dangerous than the BNP in the sense not that many people give a shit about what Nick Griffin says but Richard Littlejohn writes his bullshit in one of the most widely read rags in the country. The Daily Mail are just populists and hating bankers is popular at the moment, don't give them credit they most certainly don't deserve.

Northern A


go home keyboard warriors

17.10.2011 09:54

Typical sceneboy anarchist ramblings in the comments section. Everyone knows the daily mail are a bunch of fascist-lite idiots. What exactly is your point? Should the person not have pointed out that we've got good press in unexpected places? Should he never mention the daily mail because it's not anarchist enough for you?

Jog on and find a real fight. Fucking bored kids.

om


WTF?!

17.10.2011 10:28

This is why I hate Indymedia, it's full of morons. The previous poster was bigging up the Daily Mail, he might aswell have said the BNP are fascist dickheads yeah but at least they agree with what I think on student fees. You really think that the Daily Mail supports the occupations or that once their typical middle Englander readership gets bored of your stunt that they'll turn on you like they do every other political action?

I'm not really sure what your point is other than you don't like anarchists, SWP? Fuck off om and go sell your newspaper and make your party some extra pocket money.

Northern A


@om & @Northern A

17.10.2011 12:10

Why do you assume the other commenters are male? Is there anything on the whole of this page that would indicate that? No.
I don't normally pick up on this when I see it on this site as I'm not a pedant but to have several commenters on one thread all forgetting that women activists do exist and post on Indymedia as well pisses me off enough to comment.

I'm a female activist who reads and occasionally posts on Indymedia. Yes, we do actually exist.

@narcha


and

17.10.2011 13:57

I see most of those CEOs are white males of a certain age. Like some kind of neo-feudalism.

Glass Ceiling


don't click the link...

17.10.2011 19:20

i appreciate the sentiment behind this post but given that 99% of the time the daily mail is a fascist propaganda machine i'd urge people not to help maintain their website as the most visited newspaper site in the uk by linking through to them! who'd have thought their rating would be boosted by unique page views linked from, of all places, indymedia. yikes.

in the past i've been known to, in moments of weakness, check out the odd footy story on their sports section but am boycotting the site entirely on principle. there seems to be a trend of lefties checking it out to see what filth they're spouting just for the incredulity factor, but we're boosting their revenue and credibility (via the stats) in doing so. let's just take it for granted that it's all right-wing hogwash and that stories like the one referenced here are oddities for the populist motive mentioned above.

of course if someone leaves a copy on a train you can have a quick gander, just take it home with you and recycle it so no other casual reader gets exposed to the tripe inside!

gummo


If you see it, report it.

19.10.2011 01:31

"of course if someone leaves a copy on a train you can have a quick gander, just take it home with you and recycle it so no other casual reader gets exposed to the tripe inside!"

No, you can't even look at it if its on the train. If you see a copy on the train, stay calm, pull the emergency cord and bring the train to a stop. Then bag the offending matter and wait for a biological containment unit to attend and safely neutralise it in a controlled explosion.

After the incident has passed, contact the BBC and notify them that there has been some sort of security alert involving 'terrorism' but there are no casualties.

Then go home and make gymnastic love to your partner.

That is all.

Sir Kenneth Card-Shark.