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- I agree that using a pic of someone with a placard with 'socialism' written on it is both cheap and lazy. It's coverage like this that chips away at the credibility of public and private media. As it happens, the protesters probably aren't anti-capitalist either. If they are anti anything it's corporatism. Which also means that what they want is more democratic responsiveness over the way governments, financial institutions and large, vertically-integrated enterprises behave. The problem we have right now across the developed world is that none of the aforementioned institutions appear to be responsive to people's interests. We are not in a cycle of boom and bust, of recession followed by recovery. We are facing a structural problem in which the policy tools offered by most mainstream political parties are insufficient to deal with the depth of the challenges we face: (a) the financialization of the public discourse in culture and politics; (b) the remoteness and lack of accountability of public and private institutions; and (c) the volatility that comes with (a) + (b). While I like WNYC--a lot--I'm not convinced that it's able to consistently interrogate these fundamentals. Pictures such as the one shown on this report (twice!) only serve to confirm this apprehension.
