Facebook posts complaining that the mainstrm media isn’t covering U.S. protests called Occupy may have had the desired effect: coverage.The original demonstration,Occupy Wall Street,has been going on for 12 days as of this writing, with people camping out or thrtening to do so in New York City’s financial district, to protest businesses’ influence over U.S. politics and lack of any immediate resolution of the global financial crisis.These protests take inspiration fromrecent demonstrations in the Middle st, which were organized via Facebook and other social media.A Google srch for news stories about Occupy protests turns up1,200 articles; the first five results shown:Time,New York Daily News, Huffington post, Reuters and the U.K. Guardian, in that order.Quite possibly theFacebook postscomplaining about a drth of coverage in the mainstrm media might have inspired reporters to get .And yet, Facebook users continue to complain about the shortage of mainstrm media coverage of Occupy — which started on Wall Street and is just beginning to sprd to other cities — several days after the desired articles have been showing up.Public posts on the topic of Occupy Wall Street, along with calls to do similar protests in other cities, are going up on Facebook at an average rate of aboutonce every six secondsas of this writing.Notable among these posts: Shares of s by the tivist groupAnonymouscalling for people to continue to post about the protests and rally others to ongoing protests; in the most recent of these, embedded benth this post, Anonymous thanks the press for covering protests and asks all users of social media to keep posting about Occupy.Rders, what are your friends saying about Occupy Wall Street and similar events planned for other U.S. cities?Main courtesy of Wikipedia.
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