Tuesday, October 18, 2011

It's Pretty Hard...

...nay, virtually impossible, to find a journalist who is taking these protests seriously. This is a pretty common theme and oh so dead on:
"I always find it amusing when anti-corporate groups like Occupy Winnipeg rail against big, evil corporations and then whip out their iPhones, BlackBerries and iPads and upload messages, pictures and videos through corporate giants like Facebook, Google and Twitter.

Where do these people think these products come from? Not-for-profit agencies?"
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"They want an end to “corporate greed” and they’re demanding greater “economic justice” for all. Not sure what that means. They don’t define it on their website. I don’t think they know what it means either.

What I do notice, though, is that while they bash corporate America and everything it stands for, they have no problem benefitting from the very goods and services corporate America provides.

“The social-media savvy group will continue to occupy cyberspace with several livestreaming options, dozens of YouTube videos already posted, Facebook and Twitter activity and a new website at www.occupy-winnipeg.com,” the group wrote Monday in an e-mail to local media.

I wonder if they know Facebook is on track to post $1 billion in profits in 2011, according to several published reports in the U.S. Without those “greedy” profits, there is no Facebook.

What I don’t understand is if corporate profits are so evil, why don’t these groups boycott the products these corporations produce?

Like YouTube, another corporate giant in the world of cyberspace. Occupy Winnipeg has no problem using YouTube to spread its message, even though the popular video-sharing website was acquired by Google in 2006 for a staggering $1.65 billion. Lots of greedy profits there.

I noticed Occupy Winnipeg spokeswoman Louise May uses a Gmail account to communicate with the media. Gmail is another Google product that helps corporate America produce hundreds of millions in profits every year."
Mind you, I haven't checked in at the CBC for much on this story.

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1 Comments:

Blogger Dave in Pa. said...

"Mind you, I haven't checked in at the CBC for much on this story."

Why bother? Their leftard ideologically driven viewpoint is pretty predictable.

October 19, 2011 10:32 am  

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