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When the history books are written 20 years into the future, how will 2011 be remembered? By the Iraq withdrawal? By the “Occupy” crowd? By the Japanese tsunami and nuclear meltdown?
The media is going to try to push this OWS crap as historical even though it wasn't. The only thing they accomplished was making a clear demarcation of the Right and the Left and showing how and why the Left fails.
I was briefly watching one of the New Years Eve specials on one of the networks (either the one hosted by Carson Daly or Ryan Seacrest) and they talked about the Occupy movement as if it was one of the memorable things that went on in 2011. I thought to myself that they would never have talked about the Tea Party that way. Big double standard in the media. The media helps to shape public perception not only in the way it reports the news, but also by determining what is news. On one hand, I think that current news reporting will affect how the history books are written. On the other hand, I think that historians may have a better perspective on the Occupy movement than the media does, and will judge it in a more objective light.
