{"article":{"id":250755,"heading":"Did Occupy the Rose Parade Get Air?","author":"nobody","created":"2012-01-04 00:44:53","modified":"2012-01-06 18:50:40","last_modified":"Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:50:40","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>I was stuck at home sick, and watched the parade end on KTLA, but didn't see Occupy.  It was messed up!  But there were a half dozen active internet streams embedded in the march, which looked pretty big. <br><br> Crowd counts range from 2,000 to 5,000. <br><br> So the main broadcast in LA seems to have deliberately cut to video rather than allow some post-parade march get any air time.  How lame.  But what do you expect from KTLA, which has a long history of being lame (except for Tom Hatten's old Popeye show). <br><br> A google search for \"occupy the rose parade\" turns up 675,000 hits.  Google News turns up 671 hits. <br><br> 44,800 hits on yahoo, and 228 in yahoo news. <br><br> 44,900 hits on bing, and 21 in bing news.  Bing is part of Microsoft, a total 1% corporation.  And bill gates is now trying to \"profitize\" the free public schools. <br><br> In comparison, \"occupy wall street\" on google news turned up 436,000,000 hits, and on news, 10,200.  (Note that the Pasadena event is probably counted in the 436 million.) <br><br> \"rose parade\" +2012 turned up 58.3 million hits.  Adding +\"occupy\" turned up 13.2 million hits.  That means that Occupy was mentioned along with the Rose Parade in 22.6% of hits.  It also came up in the top news story, by the LA Times. <br><br> \"rose parade\" +2012 +\"martinez\" turned up 377,000 hits.  JR Martinez, an actor, was the Grand Marshall.  I'm feeling kinda sad for the guy.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Did anyone see OTRP on TV?","numcomment":3,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2012\/01\/250755.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":250791,"heading":"Did Occupy the Rose Parade Get Air","article":"I saw a little in SF on the news.\r\na little is better than none. \r\nbut the message is not getting through.\r\nwe need better PR","author":"Fred","parent_id":250755,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2012-01-04 11:59:26","modified":"2012-01-04 11:59:26","fileurl":""},{"id":250802,"heading":"Local Press did show lots OTRP","article":"\r\ngoogle as more comes up and then maybe COMMENT on those local newspapers internet sites about your version vs. the assumed negative that some think\/hope are the American Majority...but may not be...\r\n\r\nthe tendency to demean, dismiss, and negativize the Occupiers and protests are prevalent but the coverage is till strong in many surprising places....\r\n\r\nSunday  LA TIMES had 2 main reporters writing about Occupy issues -articles that are  worth copying, reading or saving...as well as  these sites below on net . One in Business section too. \r\n\r\n\r\nROSE PARADE STUFF- Jan 2 2012 \r\n\r\n\r\nsee San Gabriel Valley News article 1\/2\/12 for great Photo Gallery  showing Occupy  banner in action\u2026  \r\nhttp:\/\/lang.sgvtribune.com\/photos\/photos.asp?a=1388731#id=1388731&num=0\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nRose PARADE pix  great = http:\/\/lang.sgvtribune.com\/photos\/photos.asp?a=1388763#id=1388731&num=91\r\n\r\n\r\n3000 protestors = http:\/\/www.sgvtribune.com\/ci_19660978 w\/ article same reporter HAS VIDEO \r\n\r\n\r\narticle re meeting at church before protest \r\n\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.sgvtribune.com\/ci_19658341\r\n\r\n\r\nand criticism of organizer Tottam -  with video http:\/\/www.sgvtribune.com\/ci_19656317?source=rss_viewed\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nand article by Brian Charles[who wrote all  3 stories for same paper [ - here he\u2019s  defaming Peter Tottham  ] = \r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.sgvtribune.com\/ci_19656317?source=rss_viewed\r\n\r\n\r\nand see their  Home page at SGVT for other 2 articles with more balanced descript      \u201c3000 protestors\u2026\u201d \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nLA Times article HAS VIDEO \r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-0103-rose-parade-20120103,0,5463510.story\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPasadena Star News article re protesters \r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.pasadenastarnews.com\/ci_19660978?source=rss_viewed\r\nsame article same reporter syndicated as San Gabriel V N ?\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nDec 19\/11 Pasadena Star News article \r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.pasadenastarnews.com\/news\/ci_19576053 \r\n\r\nsays Cornel West\u2019s .... \u201cWest's endorsement came as a surprise to Occupy the Rose Parade organizer Aaron Murphy, who was at All Saints for West's speech.  &quot;I was really surprised by his vision that to really be a Christian, one must support movements like Occupy,&quot; Murphy said. &quot;\r\n\r\n\r\nand see on Wiki too = \r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Occupy_Rose_Parade\r\n\r\nTHE PHOTOS ARE TERRIFIC AND SHOW HOW SUCCESSFUL IT WAS IN MEDIA EVEN IF THE OFFICIAL TV VERSION DENIED ACCESS AND IGNORED THE BEST PART THAT WAS NOT :\r\n\r\nCOMMERCIAL repeated theme and comicbook characters\r\n\r\nMILITARIZED dressed YOUTH in &quot;marching&quot; bands\r\nsee the military uniforms of prior generations for facimilies\r\n\r\nUSING THE physical beauty of young women mostly to promote commercial institutions and products for profit purposes...as in beauty 'pageants' and competition to be a celebrity and get fame for money.\r\n\r\nand promoting the so-called-non-profits, the banks, the business hoping to cash in on the parade global visibility\r\nfor getting more $$$$, more customers, more P.R.\r\n\r\nand to give those worn out after  Dec 31-Jan 1st hangover a place to sit safetly watching TV with accompanying loud commercials\r\n\r\nwhat's new here ?\r\n\r\n\r\nthe OCCUPY group,\r\n size  is not the important aspect but the great images, \r\n\r\nthe efforts and work in making the displays, \r\n\r\nand the follow up WE ALL WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE in being given attention\r\n\r\n because of what WE SAY AND ADDRESS that politics corporations and businesses and regulators want to ignore, dismiss, hide and avoid !\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","author":"one of many","parent_id":250755,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2012-01-04 23:50:35","modified":"2013-11-11 01:09:35","fileurl":""},{"id":250826,"heading":"Fox actually had more coverage....","article":"One of the participants tells me that Fox actually devoted more time to the Occupy portion than other major networks and was the only one to actually show an interview with a protester. I'm told KTLA had a segment in its evening news but said the demonstrators were met mostly by boos and that a lot of the applause went to the police. \r\n\r\nThat's contrary to what participants have been telling me, and when I followed the parade some years ago with an anti-war banner, the crowds were mostly supportive.","author":"Everyday Person","parent_id":250755,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2012-01-06 18:51:16","modified":"2012-01-06 18:51:16","fileurl":""}]}