From TVSpy:
KGW, the NBC-affiliate in Portland, is under fire after accidentally airing a graphic listing numbers of “stinky people” and “angry people” at Occupy Portland.
The graphic (pictured below) aired briefly, for less than a second, in the middle of the opening graphics sequence on the noon newscast Wednesday. “Somebody punched the wrong button, basically,” KGW news director Rick Jacobs told Willamette Week.
Full story:
KGW Airs Graphic Counting ‘Stinky People’ and ‘Angry People’ at Occupy Portland
In other news, an occupy protestor attacked TV news reporters in NYC. Proof positive they are clueless:
A disgruntled Occupy Wall Street protestor confronted WNYW‘s John Huddy this morning, as he was covering the latest developments in Zuccotti Park, and the situation quickly turned ugly.
“This is somebody I’ve come across several times for the last few days,” Huddy told viewers following the altercation. “He threatened to stab me in the throat with a pen. He ripped the mic out of my hand.”
That won’t help. I can tell you this, in my own small world of TV and radio contacts, the sense of the “occupy” movement seems to be one of arm’s length satirical treatment. When the media starts panning a movement privately, organizers might want to think twice about what they are doing.
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Hello Anthony,
I generally enjoy reading your blog, but I find your recent negative coverage of the Occupy to be disturbing for two reasons. First, there is an issue and peaceful protest is a civil right in a free society. Second, supporting a right wing agenda opens the door for pro-CAGW to label skeptics as more politically motivated than science motivated.
Thank you for all your hard work,
Kevin Harris
Austin, TX
REPLY: There two reason why I covered it here
1) Bill McKibben turned it into something about climate – when it isn’t
2) Being in TV news myself, this boo boo sort of thing is something I relate to in my work there.
3) Note the “current news” on the masthead
If not for points 1 and 2, I’d probably never have paid any attention. You worry that ” label skeptics as more politically motivated than science motivated” well given the behavior we’ve seen about climate and occupy, surely they fit that mold. They can protest all they want, as you point out, that is their right in a free society. It is also the right of a free society to criticize something. While there might be a thin veener of noble cause in this originally somewhere, it has been stripped away and varnished with a plethora of other movements (like climate) and has been horribly managed.
Besides, note the tags on this post, humor, satire. We have political cartoons being drawn about “occupy” in major media but I’m not allowed to poke some fun at it on this blog? Get real.
-Anthony
LOL. The staff strays from the approving political message the journalists are attempting to send regarding these scum. This is sort of like AGW. You have the entire mainstream media portraying a delusion as reality.
How did they come up with those numbers? Create a model from a sampling? Did they send somebody around with clipboards to poll/smell each protester? Do people fall into more than one category, was somebody counted once as angry, and once as stinky, or were they only counted once, so if the stink was greater than the anger, they were counted a stinky? Lastly, what was the count of non-stinky people.
I love this little clip/promo from Toronto Sun Media TV 🙂
Anthony: “…organizers might want to think twice about what they are doing.” That statement assumes a number of facts not in evidence: (a) that there indeed “organizers” and (b) that they can “think.” Not being facetious here. Regarding (a) there may be nominal elements of organization (“General Assembly” and committees for this and that) but (1) this is all pretty ad hoc work mostly among strangers whose history and ethos does not suggest a penchant for much orderliness or obedience; that is, Boy Scouts they are by nature not and (2) with this kind of intense sustained and granular coverage by official and unofficial media, there are bound to be unfortunate moments, particularly with Occupiers (see point (1)). Regarding (b) I am being a bit snarky but in the larger sense “thinking” here means “rigorous definition of guiding principles and goals; then applying/pursuing them in a sensible, efficient and politically astute way, based on deep experience and mature judgement, so as to gain a successful outcome.” And what little I’ve seen of the Occupy stuff, these qualities are in short supply.
Are the 250 Stinking people part of the 450 Angry people or are they a separate bunch?
Well, they have a point! How could these kids ever have guessed that going 100K in debt with college loans to get a masters in transgendered Eskimo poets with a minor in womyn’s/diversity studies wouldn’t garner them a high paying job.
I am occupying WUWT.
As far as I can tell, the difference between “planking” and “occupying” is that the first involves one person lying around in an unusual and uncomfortable location hoping someone will notice them, while the second involves more people.
They missed a category on the graphic: Criminal Cluelessness
P.S. Are the OWSers still working on their demands? They’ve had a committee working on that for weeks. Maybe I missed it, not that I’d lose any sleep if I did miss it.
Guess those overflowing toilets were “Occupied” too.
Probably some sort of grid counting. From a Helo or upper story. Take a number of
dreadlocks then divide by trash and fecal material…
Maybe standing downwind,,,
I don’t think this was an accident..
. . . (Rick) Jacobs said the error was “unacceptable.”
“It was just a lapse of judgment,” he said. “I’m going to take appropriate measures to make sure it never happens again.”
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Now that’s funny. The station will get millions of $$ of publicity from this. Jacobs should embrace the tactic. He should ask the bright person(s) that did this to do a new one everyday for some random topic. Then viewers could call in and say they saw it. Then one person, say the 7th caller, could win a free something from one of the station’s advertisers.
Priceless. Way to go bright graphics person!
First Chinese aerosols. Now these ones.
This is what democracy smells like!
Anthony: “While there might be a thin veener of noble cause in this originally somewhere”
So you’re holding out for the possibility that there ever was one?
Strangely the UK occupiers seem to have been going home at night and leaving their tent city unoccupied. i.e. The tents hid the decline in numbers.
Similarities with other forms of fervent activism have not gone unnoticed, e.g.:
http://order-order.com/2011/10/28/hot-air/
The Occupy movement is quickly becoming a punch line.
Just to be clear, my main concern is giving fuel to the fire of the uninformed.
I 100% agree that most of the occupiers are uninformed when it comes to climate change and that movement as a whole lacks focus.
Also, I agree that you have every right to criticize whatever you see fit. I’m not a troll and I genuinely enjoy your blog.
Cheers!
Ray says:
October 28, 2011 at 9:52 am
Are the 250 Stinking people part of the 450 Angry people or are they a separate bunch?
I think we’re straying dangerously close to the world of Venn diagrams and set theory with that thought… ;).
Sooner or later these folks will have an epiphany.
This “strike” by the kitchen staff may be the catalyst:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/zuccotti_hell_kitchen_i5biNyYYhpa8MSYIL9xSDL
The 99%-ers are now the 98%-ers, since they don’t want to feed the swelling ranks of freeloaders either.
A perfect microcosm of an evolving capatilst society.
A most beautiful irony developing.
There are reports that Acorn is providing organization to the OWS movement, as seen in numerous articles found with a simple google search. Also supporting and assisting with organization, paying for protestors and/or other supportive or related activities are SEIU, the US Communist and Socialist parties, and Weepy Bill among others.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2053967/Is-ACORN-secretly-running-Occupy-Wall-Street.html
@Severian says:
“How could these kids ever have guessed that going 100K in debt with college loans to get a masters in transgendered Eskimo poets with a minor in womyn’s/diversity studies wouldn’t garner them a high paying job.”
+++++++
It is a widely forgotten fact of English that male humans are weamen and female people are women. The word ‘weapon’ refers to tools used only by males. Many old innuendos used to the word!
One of the dumbest things done in the name of gender equality is replacing ‘-men’ with ‘-myn’ in the belief that is renders the word gender-neutral. ‘Man’ from ‘manus’ (hand as in farmhand) just means ‘a person’.
Re the occupy movement, there is plenty to be angry about but you can see the manipulating vultures circling with their eyes on the seats at the front of the bandwagon.
Sadly, these demonstrations may be the only ‘occupation’ many young people can look forward to. If they are angry and somewhat confused, they have every reason to be; they are inheriting a very troubling future. As more and more people feel shut out by governments and financial systems that only serve the greedy, these demonstrations will grow and destabilize our societies. The population balance is shifting from ‘haves’ to ‘have nots,’ and one can’t help but feel similarities between 2011 and 1789.