Occupy Oakland Overhauls Media Strategy

The foundation of the Occupy movement is that it is a vehicle from which all people can, theoretically, express themselves openly without fear of censorship or the nasty tactics that politics often produces. But the purity of idealistic optimism, however good-intentioned and necessary to improve the current state of things, often runs into the iron wall of reality; there will always be people who use the mechanisms of openness in ways that, unchecked, can become a destructive force for the whole.