The Anti-Media Mug

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The Occupy movement has been fully defanged. It still exists, but it now largely focuses on homelessness and protesting the deportation of illegal immigrants. These are acceptable causes to politicians and their benefactors because they aren’t affected by them.

But when Occupy first fired up – Wow! – there was a show. Gargantuan throngs of people assembled in almost a thousand cities worldwide to oppose social and economic inequality in unison. And instead of global warming or racism or men, they actually had the audacity to point their fingers at the banks and corporations that control the global financial system – the big bad guys.

Occupy surely soured the moods of more than a few Little Saint James regulars. The narrative lockdown following the 2016 election finally gave them the opportunity to retaliate. Part of their response included deplatforming several social media accounts belonging to Occupy activists, including those that founded The Anti-Media. On the morning of October 11th, 2018, The Anti-Media’s 2.1 million Facebook followers all went poof. Their Twitter met the same fate later that day.

The death of The Anti-Media was one of many canary-in-the-coal-mine moments for investigative journalism. It’s still an acceptable practice, but only when it isn’t used against big banks, big businesses, or the sniveling little piss-weasels who hold public office.

This is a eulogy to The Anti-Media. They had free speech, but the public forum had already been turned into a trapdoor.