Occupy Wall Street, Mass Media and Progressive Change in the Tea Party Era: Our Window of Opportunity

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Anthony DiMaggio and Paul Street, Truthout:

"Regular reporting of public anger at business elites has
led some to compare OWS to the Tea Party with regard
to both forces' 'insurgent,' 'revolutionary' themes and their
support for 'rebellion' against the status quo. Beneath and
beyond these easily noticeable similarities, however, deep
and fundamental differences significantly undermine the
core equivalence and parallels that are commonly posited
between the Tea Party and the Occupy movement."
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