#OccupyWallStreet - Todd Gitlin: media coverage is predictably lazy, but likely to improve

Poynter :: Many journalists reporting on Occupy Wall Street think “the way to report a social movement is to go take pictures of freakish looking people or ask three different people what they want and get three different answers and conclude that this thing is ‘incoherent,’ ” said Gitlin, a Columbia University journalism and sociology professor who has been following the media’s coverage of protests since the 1960s. “I think journalists fall into traps, which are partly the result of their routines and partly the result of bad habits.”

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