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Why?

Well, because incriminating videos will be uploaded to YouTube, while brutal cops are named and shamed. Poorly secured servers are also likely to be raided, with their contents inevitably dumped or slowly leaked on the ‘Net either by internal whistleblowers or hackers.

Clearly, the rules of the game have changed. Inquiring minds are no longer bound by the confines of insipid networks and cable channels that choose the route of self-censorship and shamelessly elect to ignore certain inconvenient stories.

http://www.tgdaily.com/security-features/58721-what-we-can-learn-from-anonymous-wikileaks

Populism in this formulation is framed not only as figuratively dirty — it must literally stink. All those gross hippies packed into a little park! Journalistic “objectivity,” by contrast, is a freshly pressed skirt. And what about the vectors of privilege and power fusing together Wall Street and Capitol Hill — how does that smell?

http://www.bnet.com/blog/financial-business/why-8220occupy-wall-street-8221-critics-are-more-clueless-than-the-protestors/16362

http://occupytogether.org/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/27/occupy-wall-street-reconstruct-pepper-spray

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My name is Kelly Schomburg, I’m the girl with the red hair in these pictures. I was protesting at the Occupy Wall Street march yesterday when I and several other women were sprayed with mace and subsequently arrested. Many have already seen the video, which has been spreading like wildfire over twitter, Facebook, tumblr, and other video feeds, along with hundreds of other photos and videos. This is my recount of what happened.

http://rosinhabela.tumblr.com/post/10676011699/my-name-is-kelly-schomburg-im-the-girl-with-the

On Sept. 24, while working on a story about citizen journalism for my employer, I found myself arrested, along with many other people. My arrest gave me a unique vantage point on the risks and rewards of citizen journalists, those non-professionals who capture stories (usually without pay) using videos and images via portable technology like a cell phone camera. Anyone, even a passerby or a police officer can be a citizen journalist. That’s its power.

Here’s what happened.

http://www.thirteen.org/metrofocus/news/2011/09/observations-of-a-jailed-journalist/

http://rt.com/usa/news/occupy-wall-street-spreads-505/

Back at Wall Street

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/sep/27/occupy-wall-street-anonymous

http://www.contactmusic.com/news/alec-baldwin-speaks-out-over-wall-street-protest_1247272

And I have to say, given what I’ve witnessed in recent days in and around Zuccotti Park, that I clearly understand why my profession is much maligned these days.

If people are there, and they have something worthwhile to say – regardless of whether it is popular or potentially alarming or against the political status quo – it is news. Good reporters should be covering it, regardless of their personal political preferences – and let Americans come to their own conclusions.

America needs the media now more than ever. To find it absent, while the entire world is watching this unfolding and increasingly important story (and they are) is a travesty and a statement about how far we have fallen as a nation built on freedom of speech and thought.

http://open.salon.com/blog/lisa_romero/2011/09/26/what_the_media_arent_telling_you_about_american_protests

The protest campaign — which uses the hashtag #occupywallstreet on the microblogging site Twitter — began in July with the launch of a simple campaign website calling for a march and a sit-in at the New York Stock Exchange, just as demonstrators did in the Middle East and Africa.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/09/27/business/wall-street-protests/

“Unfortunately, you can’t vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place.”

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/311959

If you want to know how a nation supposedly by and for the people has become uprooted, one only needs to see how common young people, who are suffering so badly in this recession, were humiliated further by trying to exercise their given right to peacefully protest

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/wall-street-elites-enjoy-police-protection-2011-09-27

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/what-is-a-hacker/9468

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/activision-social-networks-a-necessity-for-gaming/085332