http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/1031/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/ows-tiananmen-square-tea-party-protests-were-terrorist-weathermen <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Michael Kimmelman&#039;s piece on the Aristotelian &quot;polis&quot; of Occupy Wall Street was accompanied by photos of legendary protests from Tiananmen Square and the fall of the Berlin Wall. When the Times reached back for a Tea Party analog, it found...the domestic terrorist group the Weather Underground. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/clay-waters">Clay Waters</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>The romantic treatment of the leftist sit-in at Wall Street by Michael Kimmelman in his Sunday Review 'news analysis' '<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/sunday-review/wall-street-protest-shows-power-of-place.html?sq=power%20of%20place%20in%20protest&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=all">The Power of Place in Protest</a>" was bad enough, with talk of Aristotle and 'the size of an ideal polis' and how 'Zuccotti Park has in fact become a miniature polis, a little city in the making.' But the real offense came in the New York Times' choice of comparison photos.</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/ows-tiananmen-square-tea-party-protests-were-terrorist-weathermen" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch DoubleStandards liberalmediabias MichaelKimmleman NewYorkTimes NewYorkTimesbias OccupyWallStreet Photographs TeaParty Terrorism TimesWatch Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:09:00 +0000 admin 581 at http://archive2.mrc.org