Nevermind Sorkin's patronizing column and pseudo-anthropological look at the crazies down in Zuccotti Park.

The problem here is precisely why this protest movement is necessary: our power structures are corrupt, and those power structures include the corporate media that perpetuates what is wrong with this country in the name of access.

That the C.E.O. of a bank partially responsible for the economic enslavement of 99 percent of Americans is able to editorially direct and skew the coverage of #occupywallstreet for one of the nation's largest (and "liberal" ahem) newspapers says all that needs to be said. No more editorializing needs to be presented. No more explication needs to be offered.

It is simple: much of our mainstream media is complicit in maintaining the devastating stranglehold our country's most powerful have on everyone else. And the media is complicit so that it can be a part of that power structure, so that journalists can sip chardonnay with and have journalistic access to those who have ruined our country.

We are the 99 percent.

This struggle is necessary.

This struggle must continue.

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