{"id":8843,"date":"2011-10-15T12:55:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T19:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8843"},"modified":"2011-10-16T16:59:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T23:59:40","slug":"brad-occupies-la-business-today-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8843","title":{"rendered":"Brad Occupies &#8216;LA Business Today&#8217;: VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still largely off the grid for another day or so (as I have been for the last 24 hours+), but delighted to check in to see so much great conversation on D.C. Douglas&#8217; #OccupyWallStreet video we posted in <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8841\">the previous item<\/a>. Also delighted to check in to see that the worldwide #OWS movement is today&#8217;s top story across all the major corporate media outlets!<\/p>\n<p>Incredibly, I&#8217;m here in Las Vegas (for a conference) and find huge signs advertising CNN&#8217;s next GOP debate here on Tuesday being held at The Venetian. The embarrassing perfection and irony of the next Presidential debate being held at a CASINO is something I don&#8217;t have time enough or perhaps even skills enough, to adequately elucidate upon at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>All as some 20 #OccupyWallStreet protesters were reported arrested just minutes ago attempting to close their accounts at Citibank near Washington Sq. Park in Manhattan! More irony there than you can shake a GOP debate in a casino at.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, cursorily related &#8212; on both the irony scale and several others &#8212; I was interviewed by Bob Jimenez on <a href=\"http:\/\/labusinesstoday.biz\/\"><i>LA Business Today<\/i><\/a>, about two weeks ago on our local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacityview.org\/la_business.htm?link=guide\/links_departments.htm'\">LA Cityview 35<\/a> channel as the uprising was just begin to force its way onto the national corporate mediascape.<\/p>\n<p>The segment, seen below, aired earlier this week. We discussed blogging, journalism, capitalism, the &#8220;occupation,&#8221; e-voting and more in the very quick 12-minute segment&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"480\" height=\"403\" data=\"data:application\/x-silverlight-2,\" id=\"silverlightControl\" type=\"application\/x-silverlight-2\"><param name=\"initParams\" value=\"AutoStart=False, StartPoint=108, EndPoint=814, SourceID=9644, SourceType=clip, EnableClosedCaptions=False, EmbedClipGuid=71b55e99-6b69-4d36-b195-75bef19aacfe\" \/><param name=\"source\" value=\"http:\/\/lacity.granicus.com\/core\/Players\/SL\/ModernPlayer.xap\"\/><param name=\"background\" value=\"black\" \/><param name=\"minRuntimeVersion\" value=\"4.0.50401.0\" \/><param name=\"autoUpgrade\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"enablehtmlaccess\" value=\"true\"\/><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=149156&#038;v=4.0.50401.0\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"><br \/>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=161376\" alt=\"Get Microsoft Silverlight\" style=\"border-style:none\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Back soon! Viva La Occupation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still largely off the grid for another day or so (as I have been for the last 24 hours+), but delighted to check in to see so much great conversation on D.C. Douglas&#8217; #OccupyWallStreet video we posted in the previous item. Also delighted to check in to see that the worldwide #OWS movement is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,54,89,390,400,28,14,337,46,188,503],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-blogging","category-media-appearance","category-economy","category-election-2012","category-election-reform","category-fox-news","category-los-angeles","category-mainstream-corporate-media","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-occupy-wall-street"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8843"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=8843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}