Colin Moynihan, on his NYTimes blog reports (excerpted):
Over the last two weeks, as people participating in a protest called Occupy Wall Street have called attention to what they say are inequities in the economic system, the ways in which news organizations have covered the protests have been a subject of hot debate.
Some protesters have wished aloud for reporting more in line with their own conception of themselves.
Now, they have their own newspaper. It debuted on Saturday with a print run of 50,000....
“This movement has sometimes been misrepresented,” said Arun Gupta, 46, one of the two primary organizers of the project. “This paper is for the general public to let them know what is going on here.”
The four-page broadsheet includes a story by Mr. Gupta headlined “The Revolution Begins at Home,” an essay by the former New York Times war correspondent Chris Hedges urging people to participate in the protests, and a “Declaration of the Occupation” approved at a meeting of protesters on Sept. 29.
Cross-posted at Plutocracy Files.