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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Now They Tell Us: WashPost Documents Threats, Violent Incidents From Occupy D.C. Camp

When the Occupy movement was going strong, the Washington Post devoted generally positive coverage to the Occupy D.C. camp, complete with a front-page puff piece on love (lust?) at Occupy D.C., a Style section puff piece on Occupy propaganda posters, and an "Occupied" Style section front pager gushing about the nascent hippie village-- complete with kitchen and library -- at the McPherson Square squatters camp.

But now the Post is finally getting around to detailing the violent tendencies of the movement, including the fact that an article circulating at an Arizona camp entitled "When Should You Shoot a Cop?" caused a homeland security bulletin to alert local authorities of potential violence in early November of last year.

Tim Craig's 29-paragraph story graced the front page of today's Metro page, but was placed below-the-fold and bore a bland headline: "Protesters, police have had tense relations." In other news, the Pope is Catholic, water's wet, and the sun rises every morning in the east:

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