chris christie will not run for president the american college student amanda knox is on a plane right now suspense almost over now for millions of i phone prayer and there you have it mainstream media hard hitting news today an american girl released from an italian jail someone not running for president and another i phone but wait a second where are the reports on this. it's a movement weeping from speed to shining sea occupy wall street takes over new york los angeles and many other places in between so is the average joe riley saying

enough is enough when it comes to corporate capitalism. this is true revolution that's going on and i need to be a part of it i have a lot to offer and she's not the only one standing up to wall street we've got the older the younger the richer and the poor all of whom knighting to fight for change and despite crackdown by police this movement isn't stepping down we'll talk to one woman arrested about brooklyn bridge showdown. i dare it's tuesday october fourth five pm in washington d.c. i'm christine friends out there watching our team. all right now before we get started with the evening i want to talk about something i know i shouldn't be shocked about i still wear driving today today dominating the airwaves on the mainstream media three stories that were given so much time and attention you'd

think nothing else in the world was going on three stories that in many ways are not even stories at least not breaking news take a look. breaking news right here on m s m b c word but new jersey governor chris christie will not run for president christie will not run chris christie will not run for president several republican candidates breathing a big sigh of relief the other huge regard to i mean arriving back on u.s. soil american college student amanda knox is on a plane right now she will likely stay at her mother's hold in west seattle and begin with she calls winning back her happiness suspense almost over now for millions of i phone fans hardcore applegate's claim the new device is faster and shaped like a teardrop all right so amanda knox went to the airport she was behind bars for four years pretty american girl freed italian courts bad well not the case of michael moore this is

a texas man imprisoned for twenty five years in the beating death of his life after new d.n.a. evidence linked another man to the crime the n a evidence the district attorney refused to turn over or if you want to be obsessed with court cases one of the more on the case of a fourteen year old boy wrongly executed in south carolina yes it was more than sixty years ago but this is the youngest person executed in this country in more than one hundred years what about looking a little deeper into the failures of our own justice. as far as chris christie you know i lost count weeks ago how many times he said he wasn't going to run and it's not like he actually did it leave the door open to changing his mind and i guess if enough people with mouthpieces still want you to run and they tell you enough times that there still is a chance it becomes a news story and only question is how long we'll have to wait until the media speculation begins yet again that maybe he's possibly considering changing his mind well and as far as the i phone you know admittedly i am in the market for

a new i phone so potentially personally actually this is a story that i was interested in but doesn't have to be one of the biggest stories of the day especially since i phone five isn't even coming out for most of the world until next year but check this out we got our hands on a confidential internal e-mail circulated around the web programming office of washington d.c. it said everyone in the apple i phone five media event is tomorrow going today in order to get as many page views as possible please put the word i phone in the title of every story you write today even if it's not relevant will be counting your post at the end of the day see interesting. not really go all right let's go to the real business it is week three of the occupy wall street protests were thousands of protesters have descended on wall street to send a message that corporate corruption will no longer be acceptable and now the movement is gaining steam from new york to los angeles and many many cities in

between where protesters are coming out to support a message and a movement artie's ramona lindo takes a look at just how fast it's spreading across the country. we don't want that not just creating more pain we're suffering more perhaps change and i think people are taking it. more than a thousand people in los angeles. chose to stand in solidarity with the occupy wall street movement. at city hall the barry visible center of government in power in the ninety's. demonstrators worry that the one percent who controlled most of the nation's wealth have gained a stranglehold over the u.s. government. you know refer to the people he was so afraid of as the great peace in the great peace as a way people of all walks of life had turned out for this mass in the streets and here in los angeles now a lot of the protesters here say they've gotten their inspiration from the

demonstrators in new york and in athens and others are inspired by the revolution of egypt now there's still much debate about whether this is part of the revenue scenary movement here in america but one thing that people can agree on is that some drastic changes need to be made as to how this country runs from the east coast to the west coast and a growing number of places in between a collective agere is unifying people. in the windy city a group has been demonstrating outside the federal reserve bank of chicago for more than a week in boston a tent city in the heart of the financial district means occupiers can voice their discontent with corporate greed twenty four seven. just by dozens of arrests demonstrators intent to show that democracy does not end at the ballot box families have also been marching in denver and san francisco

demanding radical change from a wall to olympia to omaha to orlando according to the occupy together web site. protests are being organized in more than one hundred cities points behind are worth a revolution their time and i think that. despite mainstream media down playing and even killing the supporters the message will be. what happened in london. people who were just. you know that's. something is wrong already bruised by soaring unemployment poverty and foreclosures the middle class are now being told to tighten their belts many americans took finally their voices because of the beginning bigger it looks like it is spreading throughout the country and you know they had the arab spring you know hopefully

never us in los angeles. but you know just like going on for more than two weeks there has been spotty coverage of these protests on the mainstream media even though as you just heard many think this is the start of a sort of tea party on the left or you know the answer to the arab spring here at home the american autumn but it wasn't until those arrests over the weekend on the brooklyn bridge seven hundred people that many people even learned of the protests were going on so i want to talk more about the media aspect of this as well as a potential shift in energy and help me do that earlier i spoke to kristen grant a writer for alter net she was one of those seven hundred who were arrested and she weighed in to get her take on the movement itself and how it's evolving it was just an incredible feeling to be part of thousands of people taking over a public space as mine mental as the brooklyn bridge and to put a face on the movement. by taking over the bridge i was just explaining

to the public this is what we're doing we are the public we are the ninety nine percent and we're taking back what's ours i know what it was incredible to see go ahead it was just incredible to see the sense of pride and courage that it took to deliver such a strong message and we accomplished that salute i know one of the big controversies is the way the police have handled this i know the first major incident that raised eyebrows was of course those young women being pepper sprayed by police and we have we heard some of those young women on our show last week but then we see literally hundreds of people some who say police actually you know was courted them on to the bridge only to then be arrested and yet then and my p.d. released a video that i want to play for our viewers and then we can talk about it. was

hard to sort of understand there were police wanted people to know that in fact they had a megaphone they warned every single person who went on the bridge all seven hundred protesters that they would be arrested you were there i wasn't there give me your take on do you think that everyone knew that if they stepped onto that bridge they would be arrested. absolutely i mean megaphones are nothing compared to thousands of people chanting together there was a point when we did pass a police officer with a megaphone and i could not hear anything coming from it i knew in fact that if you took the car route on the bridge there was a chance he would be arrested but only because i heard another protester shouting it out to people i am sure that most people did not hear him or the police and had no idea that they would be arrested if they went that way and in fact that's where most people were going and there was also a suspiciously low number of police and the ones who i did see were and saying

anything i actually walked next to a cop for about ten minutes down the bridge and he did not signal to anyone that they might be arrested or even say a word i would imagine too if all of those protesters had been warned we're going to seen so many of them sort of climbing over the bridge and trying to get off of it so as not to be arrested something that by the way is probably dangerous but i want to switch gears your journalist i want to talk about the media coverage of this as compared to the coverage of everything else you know i started today show off by looking at three of the biggest stories in the last twenty four hours amanda knox returning home from italy the release of the new i phone and chris christie's announcement that he will not run for president despite making this announcement dozens of times before let's play a few clips about. the way we're going to run you know not going to happen here saying categorically not running well i'm not running almost two percent certain the market well i don't want to run i don't feel like i'm ready to go i'm sure your

heart your wallet we're going to go where i want that that was ok so this is a small section of a montage the political put together of the new jersey governor making it very clear that he will not in fact run and yet there was much more on this non-decision then stories about occupy wall street or or really anything else for that matter as a journalist as somebody who's who's attending these occupy wall street protests what are your thoughts about this. i think that the mainstream media for the most part is corporate and that it's dangerous for them to display this anti-corporate rhetoric and i also think that they wonder if their viewers support it and because it the movement itself hasn't gone completely mainstream yet although i think it will very soon they don't want to jeopardize their viewers and their sponsors what you said you think it is going to go mainstream pretty soon what do you think it's going to take i mean certainly over the weekend the arrests you were part of made more people aware of what's going on but what's it going to take for this movement

it's already been going on more than two weeks what will it take for all the cable networks to make this their lead story i think that as it grows they will have no choice but to report on it as there are marches that where thousands of people are taking place all over the country to ignore the story will be pretty difficult because people will see it in their towns and i also think that as the unions are drawing. it will kind of change the characteristic of the movement and people will say less that they're dirty hippies or and artists and more that these are working people fighting for fair wages and the right to have a job many of those unions of course expected to join up tomorrow i know that a lot of eyes are on occupy wall street to see how much bigger a growth what i get your take kristen of. sort of the changing sentiment we're hearing a lot of people comparing what's going on to the arab spring in egypt and tunisia some people even calling it the american autumn what are your thoughts on this. i

think that the movement absolutely gained strength and inspiration from the arab spring and that this is a global revolution and that people all over the world are rising up to say that their their governments don't represent them without their right to represent themselves and take control into their own hands and i think that in that aspect we are all the same we're all working people who want he wanted money who want to be paid for the work that we do and we don't want to continue to pay our government not to support us do you think kristen that your time behind bars you were with several other people do you think about was discouraging for a lot of people know about it i think if anything it inspired people more because there was so much support throughout the entire ordeal from people who weren't being arrested coming over the bridge to tell us that everything would be ok that they had money for us that there was a march going on in support of us and just in the job that we were all talking

supporting each other and just becoming closer if anything i think it strengthened it really really interesting i do want to thank you for sharing your story with us keep us posted because it seems like this is going nowhere in terms of how fast and big it's going christian grana writer for alter net let's look a little deeper into the media coverage since for the most part since september seventeenth when the protests began the protesters have largely been either ignored ridiculed or marginalized by the mainstream media despite being called hippies or non law abiding citizens many of these people are not who you may think or at least what you've been told to think about them are these on the prosecutor going to spend time with some of these protesters to find out their personal reasons for being there. they have been accused of not having a unified message the same kind of messages and levels maybe because they're drawn from all walks of life brought together by anger and frustration at the direction

of their country i'm sad because of all the misery has been created from a policy that i've been trying to change for forty years. destroying the lower paris people. very good business here day or night rain or shine it's the personal stories of peace protesters that have kept them out on the streets three weeks into the demonstrations and the deeper into the occupation the deeper the. sixty seven year old letter t. card came all the way from california leaving behind a ninety seven year old mother the retired home financing specialist worries about the future generation and enough money to survive my lifetime so i don't have a problem but. my great grand kids. or grandkids.

sure is too hard for me to make. these protesters have largely been presented by the media as hippy anarchist teens this marching eighty nine year old retired teacher would beg to differ grocery oh my god now that what they do to the american people to our sister out completely corrupt completely responsible good will national recession that we have video or student he is here with his three year old daughter in law i want to bring my daughter because i would like for her to. get an idea of what it is the politically active she says protesters issues with the system may differ but if you're fed up this is where you need to be there and she's all come down to one thing and that you know when the wealth is concentrated into the hands of the field. it's very difficult to get any laws for any kind of an issue that is in the interest of ninety nine percent of people going around saying. you know i mean that's just that's economic reality pennsylvania

couple dawn and mathias add some loose pedal to their outdoor beds to stay close eat talk off by an american flag i left my job i left my home i left my family i left my job. because i think that this is a very very important cause this is a true revolution that's going on and i need to be a part of it i have a lot to offer it's not just passion but knowledge that's led them to the protest the couple's friend anna spends her time researching the global and american financial system she drove twenty hours to get to the street. this is a bottomless hole and that there's so much corruption there that. yeah this is according a famous film we're mad as hell and i go if you think you know how to found out about the protests in two reaction at that moment it dawned on me that mass media is not covering it i am told two weeks later can media has paid some attention but as the demonstrators are presented as young slackers what's one thing that hippies

like most of. those who are ready for real change are growing more diverse by the day is the future r t v. well those are some of the faces of occupy wall street for more than two weeks we've been showing you pictures from the front lines of the movement as well perhaps some of the strongest pictures we showed are from over the weekend video of more than seven hundred people getting arrested on the brooklyn bridge now as far as the latest in lower manhattan a lot of today has been spent preparing for what is expected to be a major day tomorrow with labor groups announcing that they too will join in the protests also starting to hear rumors of a nationwide student walkouts that for noon tomorrow but this evening well known economist will be speaking at the occupy wall street protests and as richard roth host of the economic update on the ninety nine point five f.m. radio before he headed over there though he spent a few minutes with us talking about the protest the problems and so much more he was in our studio in new york. what i'm going to try to do is to make these young

people and the older people with them but we're that it really is historic they are expressing something that's been building in the united states for thirty years it's marked longer a country that was once relatively equal in its distribution of wealth and income has become much more on equal and with it has gone a destruction of our environment a corruption of our politics and what you're seeing now is a culmination of a build up of a long time that's why it's here that's why it's staying and i want them to feel the full force of the legitimacy of what they're doing and the desire to change this country because in the minds of a clear majority of this country's people i think it's an important point you bring up and i do want to take this a little broader and i don't take astray from something that you wrote about your time here giving today but you know so many people take such pride in questioning challenging and criticizing things like health care education and transportation

yet we have failed it to similarly question challenge or criticize our economic system otherwise known as capitalism and i don't know why you think this project has been so off limits. well you know we take a justifiable pride in questioning our institutions as a way to make them better we should have been doing that for the last fifty years with our economic system this is not its first failure this is not its first crisis but because of the cold war it became impossible to question the economic system you either had to be a cheerleader or a celebrator of this system or you were considered somehow traitorous or disloyal and all that happened was that capitalism got a free pass it could degenerate the way it has into the kind of corruption and the kind of inequality and injustice we're now seeing being protested so i think what these young people are doing and what the older folks with them are saying is it's

time to get back and do what reasonable people ought to do question their economic system capitalism see if it needs to be changed see if we can do better and then move in that direction and no longer allow the voices of repression and conservatism to prevent us from making this a society that's better equipped to meet our needs that is now the case. that you blame i in part when in a cold war for this sort of changing dynamic i know that whenever crack capitalism is criticized the cries of socialism often follow the word socialist still in so many ways a bad word you know i'm wondering if you have an idea how does this message war shift our east in terms of talking about how to listen in a way that really ways part of that. well i think that what you have is a kind of kneejerk reaction it is not working very well the more i go around the

country the more i see that the cry of socialism kind of falls on deaf ears for the older people they've heard it so often they know that it's just rhetoric for the younger people they are led to ask the question if socialism is the big scary alternative to capitalism and if capitalism is not the liberal in the goods then maybe i ought to learn a little bit more about this socialism and maybe i want to ask some questions so the irony is that conservatives screaming socialism are actually feeding a growing interest in what socialism is and then leading to the discovery that there are as many varieties of socialism as ever there were of capitalism and this missing all of them is a sign of ignorance and not a sign of an intellectual activity an openness to trying to make the world better i mean i think that might be true richard in terms that the vast majority of level headed people saying you know maybe i do need to re understand folks who isn't versus capitalism versus canniness and who knows what and however it still when you

turn on a lot of the mainstream media they have their talking point they have their short. and still photo wasn't is seen as a bad word. yes but again i am really quite confident that that is fading in the united states the more and more the system we actually have is clearly not working for the majority of people the more they will associate all of the arguments why to keep it's none the less to not question it those are going to be more and more sin and more and more questions that's already happening that's why this rally got going that's why it's growing that's why it didn't gurus despite the media relationship to it the police relationship to it this is the build up of a generation of people who realize that they should look for alternatives to

capitalism socialism is one of those that are worthy of their attention i don't think a lot of badmouthing is going to change the impact of the real world on people's consciousness you know let's get back to those protesters richard i know one of the major themes of occupy wall street is this inequality gap continuing to grow those big banks and wall street bankers sitting on top of growing profits and everyone else sort of you know watching their savings accounts and windell down to nothing what do you think are some of the strategies being proposed to deal with this down in lower manhattan we told you before some of the people who were worried that they're just being seen as hippies in the streets but what are some of the real ideas here that are taking shape. it's a very rich stew one of the marvels of a genuine social movement as opposed to one manufactured in advertising or this is that a genuine genuine social movement is messy complicated brings in very diverse people who all have ideas but let me assure you that the ideas coming out of wall street

are very good as an economist a professional i can assure you of that they want to change for example the tax system so that people at the top do not get away with paying fuel or low taxes something that has been in the new and they have some very concrete proposals to go back to what the tax rates were in the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's which turns out to be much more equal then they are today that's a very concrete proposal some of them have worked it out in considerable detail they have proposals also to change how the businesses of america are run but if you want a society that works equally then the businesses have to be run by a handful of people at the top big shareholders boards of directors but in a democratic way by all of the people who work there and by the people in the communities that interdependent these companies they have proposals for a democratization of the workplace something that i talk to them about a great deal and there's

a lot of interest in there so there are both alder and new or original proposals i think you'll see them worked out in the weeks to come to a very good program but not one hatched in the brains of this or that expert one that comes out of a diverse social movement in the early phases of this birth it's an amazing and important social historical event to watch and to be part of and just last question for you or to any you have to really talk about some of these people who have real power certainly when the power is in the people on the street there are also people higher up people making decisions that are handed by and i think about the chairman of the federal reserve ben bernanke he was recently questioned about these are people i was three protests and here's what he said he said i take unemployment growth and inflation into account not protests i just a quick reaction from you to that and act on it. in my entire life and you can tell from my here i've been around

a while in my entire life the people in power always begin in reacting to social movements by insisting that they don't matter that they have no influence that's not correct but it is a good effort to dissuade and to discourage the people that are gathering there the people at the top are paying very close attention i can assure you from personal experience the leading bankers the leading corporate executives are very worried that this is the beginning of a mass movement that will change american politics and influence the bottom line of their companies when you hear them say things like that that's purely a p.r. effort to disparage such a movement i don't think it's a succeeded the first three weeks i don't think it will succeed in the future that's all it is an important point has never been seems to be getting larger not smaller richard roth economist and host of economic update on w b i ninety nine point five f.m. radio thanks so much and that is going to do it for now but for more on the stories

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