The fact that the media can influence politics is readily apparent from the campaign trail, to the passing of laws, to grassroots campaigns like Occupy Wall Street. The Occupy Wall Street campaign was portrayed negatively by mainstream media. Newspapers, radio, television and the Internet have painted the movement with offensive overtones, reporting the lows of the movement rather than the revolutionary aspects of the movement. One possible reason why the media has consistently framed this movement negatively is that the movement works against the forces of society. This conflicting issue between the wealthy conservative mass media and the Occupy Wall Street movement has attracted the interest of audiences from all walks of life to witness the songs and dances framed against the occupiers. Who will win this dance? Examination of the facts will reveal how well this approach influences political forces. The four forces of socialization, i.e. how the public, technology, media industry and product of different communication media react in the social world and social construction. of reality or the power of influence have focused on Occupy Wall Street (Croteau, Hoynes, & Milan, 2012). The public has been tuned into this movement since the first protest in September 2011 (Occupy Wall Street, 2011). The protesters were portrayed as “a diverse collection of punks, anarchists, socialists, hackers, liberals, and artists” (Scherer, 2011, p. 22). A CNN report (2011) stereotyped the protesters as hypocrites, because they recently occupied an office near Wall Street, with a copy machine and furniture, instead of the parks from which they had previously protested. An Occupy representative responds… halfway through the paper… that the one percent prospers, while the rest of America starves, all because big business controls politics in America (Occupy, 2011). It's too early to tell, but in the end, if the occupiers lose the competition, at least they danced. Works CitedCNN. (2011). Exclusive: Inside the Occupy Wall Street offices. Retrieved from: http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/01/exclusive-inside-the-offices-of-occupy-wall-street/Croteau, D., Hoynes, W., & Milan, S. (2012). Media/society (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.Occupy Wall Street. (2011). From. Retrieved from: http://occupywallst.org/about/Scherer, M. (2011). Taking it to the streets. Time. 178(16). P. 20-24. Tharoor, I., & Rawlings, N. (2011). “The Whole World Is Watching”: Occupy Wall Street Looks Down on the NYPD. Retrieved from: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2096976,00.html
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