On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> You need a program to get the best enjoyment out of the coming shuffling
> about of the media. I think this is another reason to read Ted Morgan's
> book
> (now available in paperback). He traces the way the media worked out their
> categories to 'contain' the democratic explosion. I don't think the media
> yet have a handle on how they will handles this. (Especially since some
> recent polls show what might be considered surprising approval of OWS by
> blue-collar workers (identified as those without any college), and even
> more
> surprising smallness of active disapproval. Probably that will provoke a
> lot
> of "hippie" labeling: hippies are alleged to be as scary as Reds once were.
> But the categories will develop and it should be interesting to follow
> that.
> The major category to "confine" the '60s movements was the "generational
> conflict." Perhaps they will even try that out a bit.
>
> Carrol
>
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> On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:22:27 +0100 (BST)
> Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > And I will venture a speculation here: OWS has had a salutory effect.
>
> No doubt about it. Even the liberals have shuffled
> to the left -- weathercocks that they are.
>
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