Occupy Wall Street: images, reports, and ambient soundscapes, from Dan Patterson

By Xeni Jardin at 11:52 am Saturday, Oct 1

Broadcast journalist Dan Patterson of ABC News Radio went down to Occupy Wall Street on Friday, and has posted extensive reports in Storify, image, and audio form. Below, an ambient soundscape of the protest. Dan, I'm glad you did this—in any story, the background is as important as the foreground, and nothing makes me feel like I'm there like this:

The Sounds of #OccupyWallStreet by danpatterson

Tags: Audio, new york city, nyc, occupy wall street, sound, video, wall street

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New reports of China State TV broadcasting video of cyberattacks on US

WSJ: "Chinese state television has broadcast footage of what two experts on the Chinese military say appears to be a military institute demonstrating software designed to attack websites in the U.S."

Looks like old footage they're using as b-roll. I would love to see a copy of this propaganda documentary, if anyone has clips?

Earlier this week, I blogged of a similar report in the Falun Gong newspaper Epoch Times. I was inclined to treat the Epoch Times report with some skepticism, given the source, but this second report is interesting.

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