Yesterday, Oakland was shut down by a general strike. That happens roughly almost never in America.
Was it in the NY Times? I didn't see it. I just looked and saw nothing. It's one the front page of the Guardian, including coverage of the Oakland police using tear gas on protestors.
OWS has really thrown the Grey Lady for a loop. They know they can't openly identify with the rabble, because their subscribers are all working down on Wall Street. No one under 40 actually buys newspapers anymore.
And despite the "liberal" tag the Times has, it's still a staid, slow moving vehicle that is temperamentally conservative.
So, while they are paying a great deal of attention to the chaos, unrest and assault on democracy in the name of financial stability in Greece, they just don't seem to know what to do with the chaos, unrest and defense of democracy against financial hegemony right down the road from them.
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