"Occupy" documenter has ties to Hampton Roads

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By Christopher Dinsmore
The Virginian-Pilot
© November 27, 2011

A skateboard videographer from Newport News has become the journalistic voice of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Tim Pool began shooting video of the movement about four days after protests began on Sept. 17 in New York’s Zuccotti Park, according to an article on the website of Fast Company magazine. Pool formed a media startup with another like-minded protester, Henry Ferry, to document the anti-Wall Street movement. The business is funded largely by donations.

Its nonstop, on-the-ground video is streamed live on the Internet at www.ustream.tv/theother99.

On Nov. 16, the day police swept the protesters’ encampment from Zuccotti Park, Pool webcast for about 20 hours. That day’s live stream drew more than 20,000 simultaneous viewers and 250,000 unique visitors and was rebroadcast by other outlets, according to Fast Company.

“Pool and his partner Henry Ferry are doing more with $500 Samsung Galaxy S II phones on Sprint’s 4G Network than TV networks can muster with thousands of dollars of gear, satellite trucks, pretty anchors, and helicopters,” the magazine reported.

Check out the Fast Company article at http://bit.ly/sCJMrB.

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Occupying the Media

Submitted by A Markowitz on Sun, 11/27/2011 at 10:54 am.

Good work reporting clearly what the corporate media do not. The great thing about internet technology is that the corporate media that once controlled information now does not. The truth gets out which is vitally important whether in Syria, Egypt or here in the US. Given the bias and government oversight of the big media propaganda machine and its failure, if inability to provide quality journalism, the People, equipped with video technology and internet access, become the source of information.

Time Magazine

Submitted by debral29391 on Sun, 11/27/2011 at 1:11 pm.

covers for Europe, Asia & South Pacific editions 12/5/2011 featured Revolution Redux with the image of a protester wearing a gas mask while raising his fist.

The cover of the U S edition for 12/5/2011 featured the story Why Anxiety is Good for you.

I think they forget we have internet.

The internet?

Submitted by russb757 on Sun, 11/27/2011 at 1:01 pm.

You mean the same internet you gain access through via a corporation? Using equipment manufactured by corporations?

Clearly if the evil corporations wished to control the message they could do so. I do agree the media is useless. I think it is the one thing most everyone can agree upon.

And corporations have been

Submitted by benoit on Sun, 11/27/2011 at 3:46 pm.

And corporations have been lobbying for quite some time to be able to restrict the internet. Some recent bills have come up this very year in an attempt to give them this power. Google "net neutrality" and read all about how corporations want to control what you can see.

Kinda scary when you think that many Congressmen have not the first clue about how computer networks operate and think it's just a "series of tubes."*

*Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK)

You really believe that?

Submitted by suffolksplit on Sun, 11/27/2011 at 12:57 pm.

You think “All the Rest” are editing stories to bias them in favor of the police? I bet I’ve seen those college kid sprayed with pepper spray a hundred times. Are they running over people with tanks and machine gunning them that is not making the news?

Start browsing some foreign

Submitted by benoit on Sun, 11/27/2011 at 3:33 pm.

Start browsing some foreign news sites and you'd be surprised what's not covered in the U.S. media. Google News is a good place to start; make sure your settings are "International."

Wall Street ran a $516 trillion dollar derivatives Ponzi scheme

Submitted by Chris33 on Sun, 11/27/2011 at 10:24 am.

Wall Street ran a $516 trillion dollar derivatives Ponzi scheme that destroyed the world economy, and NO ONE WENT TO JAIL FOR IT. God bless OWS for drawing attention to this issue. The main stream media never covers it, or refers to it incorrectly as the "housing crisis." 2% of the homes in the U.S. being in foreclosure did not bring down the world economy. It was the derivatives Ponzi bubble. And the criminals got away with it.

You know why

Submitted by cs on Sun, 11/27/2011 at 4:50 pm.

NO ONE WENT TO JAIL FOR IT? (It looks SO much SCARIER when you CAPITALIZE the words you want to EMPHASIZE, doesn't it?)

NO ONE WENT TO JAIL FOR IT because they didn't break any laws. See, in the United States you can't just send people to jail just because you don't like what they did - they have to do something illegal. Name a law they broke. I suspect you can't, in which case you're just spreading bovine fertilizer.

Just curious Chris

Submitted by russb757 on Sun, 11/27/2011 at 12:55 pm.

Other than simply cutting and pasting the exact same statement into every article having to do with OWS do you actually have your own opinion of all this?

Are you saying that no democrat was responsible for any of the financial issues we have before us now?

None?

Deregualtion is too blame

Submitted by Chris33 on Sun, 11/27/2011 at 1:05 pm.

The financial system should never have been deregulated. Bring back Glass-Steagall. It worked well for 70 years. Capitalism without regulation is the Mafia.