Think the Powers-That-Be aren't worried about OWS?

[KonaKane]

With a hat tip to commondreams.org, the most recent issue of TIME says it all. This first one is the USA edition:



Now the European edition:


And the Asian edition:



Lastly, the South Pacific edition:




Hmmmmmmmmm.

[SeattleGirl]

Heaven forbid the snooze media show us how things are and let us make up our own minds about them!

[KonaKane]

(11-28-2011 04:59 PM)SeattleGirl Wrote:  Heaven forbid the snooze media show us how things are and let us make up our own minds about them!

No kidding. I found this so Orwellian it gave me goosebumps.

[There Is No Spoon]

(11-28-2011 05:04 PM)KonaKane Wrote:  

(11-28-2011 04:59 PM)SeattleGirl Wrote:  Heaven forbid the snooze media show us how things are and let us make up our own minds about them!

No kidding. I found this so Orwellian it gave me goosebumps.

Yes, but the anxiety that this Orwellian cover swap gives you is good for you, donchaknow?

[KonaKane]

It reminds me of something my dad noticed, all those years ago when you only had three choices of evening news when you got home from work: CBS, NBC and ABC. He would tell my mom "See, the only commercials they cut to during the whole news broadcast are for aspirin and pepto bismol!".

[cannae1]

It looks like it may be a case of projection.

It may be they who have anxiety.

[KonaKane]

(11-28-2011 06:02 PM)cannae1 Wrote:  It looks like it may be a case of projection.

It may be they who have anxiety.

Wow, good call. I never considered that (my wife, who is a counselor, is pretty disappointed that I didn't notice that right away).

[Treestar]

What have the TIME covers got to do with OWS?

That revolution appears to be taking place elsewhere.

[KonaKane]

If you have your ear properly to the rails, the "revolution" is going on everywhere.