Changing the Topic, Republicans Befuddled ... LOOK!
The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement has changed our national conversation.
At kitchen tables, in coffee shops, in offices and factories, and in newsrooms,
Americans are now talking about economic inequality, corporate greed, and how
America's super-rich have damaged our economy and our democracy.
The wide gulf between the richest one percent and the rest of Americans hasn't
changed over the past year, but in the past month OWS has made it the dominant
topic of discussion across the nation. Even the GOP presidential candidates, while
first criticizing the occupiers as a radical fringe, have had to do an about-face when
they saw that the protesters had, in fact, captured the national mood.
One can see how Occupy Wall Street has transformed the country's agenda by
examining how America's newspapers have covered the movement's concerns
and issues.
For example, a search of Lexis/Nexis's database reveals that in October 2010,
U.S. newspapers published 409 stories with the word "inequality". As the graphs
reveal, each month through September 2011 the number of stories varied little. But
in October 2011, the frequency skyrocketed to 1,269 stories.
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