"The Media are Cowards"

As more and more occupy protestors are arrested, the scene in LA proved to be another place where the media could have stepped up and used their rights to show the police brutality.  Actor Wil Wheaton a huge supporter of the Occupy movement and resident of LA was tweeting and retweeting sentiments from protestors and viewers who were watching protestors and the few citizen journalists (like victim @OakFoSho) being carted off and threatened by officers.

While this might not seem out of the ordinary from all of the Occupy news we've heard, the LAPD also blocked most press from being allowed in to the area, set up press approved areas and threatened to arrest any journalist out of the press pool.  Which resulted in this tweet

What's most disturbing isn't that the police but this press ban on, it's that the reporters then FOLLOWED it.  The fact that all these reporters have the chance to get the story and really make a difference.  More so they're openly giving up their rights as reporters.  They are just not doing their jobs on checking the power of government and this might be a time when citizen journalists are going to take hold of the media because trained journalists don't do their jobs.

Occupy Wall Street, Occupy College?

So I just read this piece on occupy college.  It's interesting because I haven't heard exactly what we're supposed to be protesting.  Lack of freedom of speech on college campuses?  The debt we're facing?  Bad professors?

It's pretty unclear and nobody seems to know.  According to their website it seems to be that we have a lot of debt, not a lot of opportunities and no lobbyists to fight for our rights. 

Interesting.

So the plan is to walk out of class at noon at the local time of your college.  I'm not exactly sure how walking out of our classes will start a movement. The thing is it isn't doing anything, so professors can't teach and you miss out on a day of education.  At least with Occupy Wall Street those on Wall Street have to look at those who are affected by their choices.

While Ithaca College isn't scheduled to participate in this, my class ends at noon, so I guess I'll be walking out.