personoftheyear http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/12486/all en NBC's Curry Links Occupy Wall Street Protesters to Arab Spring http://archive2.mrc.org/bias-alerts/nbcs-curry-links-occupy-wall-street-protesters-arab-spring <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/kyle-drennen">Kyle Drennen</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>Following Time managing editor Rick Stengel revealing the magazine's "Person of the Year" to be "The Protester" on Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry attempted to compared the Arab Spring democracy movement in the Middle East to Occupy Wall Street: <strong>"Are there links between what had happened in the Arab Spring...and also what's happening now on Wall Street and all across this country?"</strong> [<a href="http://newsbusters.org/sites/default/files/2011-12-14-NBC-TDAY-CurryStengel.mp3">Audio available here</a>]<br /> </p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/bias-alerts/nbcs-curry-links-occupy-wall-street-protesters-arab-spring" target="_blank">read more</a></p> BiasAlerts News Analysis Division AnnCurry ArabSpring BiasAlert liberalmediabias NBC OccupyWallStreet personoftheyear RickStengel Time Today Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:52:00 +0000 38537 at http://archive2.mrc.org