Conor Friedersdorf
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Conor Friedersdorf is an American journalist and an staff writer at The Atlantic. He lives in Venice California.
Conor Friedersdorf is an American journalist and an staff writer at The Atlantic. He lives in Venice California.
Conor Friedersdorf is an American journalist and an staff writer at The Atlantic. He lives in Venice California.Conor bio header for "Occupy Wall Street's Greatest Strength Is Neutering It",The Atlantic, October 14, 2011
Movement for focusing on the “symbolic Wall Street” instead of the “actual Wall Street”. The article had the following quote.Conor Friedersdorf, “Occupy Wall Street's Greatest Strength Is Neutering It”, The Atlantic, October 14, 2011
On October 15, 2011, free lance journalist Caitlin Curran held a sign at the Occupy Wall Street protest in Times Square
that had an excerpt of this quote. A picture of her holding the sign (see right) was taken and posted on Twitter
. The picture received notoriety and Caitlin proposed a story to her contract employer, radio station WNYC
for a show she was editor on, The Takeaway
.Caitlin E. Curran, “How Occupy Wall Street Cost Me My Job”, Gawker, October 28, 2011 The next day she was fired by WNYC because “When Ms. Curran made the decision to participate in the protest and make herself part of the story, she violated our editorial standards.” Adam Clark Estes and Dino Grandoni, “Another Public Radio Freelancer Gets the Ax Over Occupy Wall Street”, The Atlantic, October 28, 2011
Forbes magazine has observed that the quote has “taken on a life of it's own”. Christopher Faille, “Don't Blame Goldman Sachs For Hedging Its Bets and Staying In Business”, Forbes magazine, October 18, 2011
The Philadelphia Daily News
has used the quote as an illustration that the Occupy Wall Street movement is the first one to come with a “syllabus and a reading list”. Gary Thompson “'Margin Call' takes different view of a firm's failure”, Philadelphia Daily News, October 20, 2011
Conor Friedersdorf is an American journalist and an staff writer at The Atlantic. He lives in Venice California.
Conor Friedersdorf is an American journalist and an staff writer at The Atlantic. He lives in Venice California.Conor bio header for "Occupy Wall Street's Greatest Strength Is Neutering It",The Atlantic, October 14, 2011
Controversial quote
On October 14, 2011, Conor Friedersdorf wrote an article for The Atlantic criticizing the Occupy Wall StreetOccupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street is an ongoing series of demonstrations initiated by the Canadian activist group Adbusters which began September 17, 2011 in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district...
Movement for focusing on the “symbolic Wall Street” instead of the “actual Wall Street”. The article had the following quote.Conor Friedersdorf, “Occupy Wall Street's Greatest Strength Is Neutering It”, The Atlantic, October 14, 2011
- "Much easier to decide that it's wrong to create a mortgage-backed security filled with loans you know are going to fail so that you can sell it to a client who isn't aware that you sabotaged it by intentionally picking the misleadingly rated loans most likely to be defaulted upon”
On October 15, 2011, free lance journalist Caitlin Curran held a sign at the Occupy Wall Street protest in Times Square
Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets...
that had an excerpt of this quote. A picture of her holding the sign (see right) was taken and posted on Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
. The picture received notoriety and Caitlin proposed a story to her contract employer, radio station WNYC
WNYC
WNYC is a set of call letters shared by a pair of co-owned, non-profit, public radio stations located in New York City.WNYC broadcasts on the AM band at 820 kHz, and WNYC-FM is at 93.9 MHz. Both stations are members of National Public Radio and carry distinct, but similar news/talk programs...
for a show she was editor on, The Takeaway
The Takeaway
The Takeaway is a morning radio news program co-created and co-produced by Public Radio International and WNYC-New York Public Radio with editorial partners the BBC World Service of the United Kingdom, The New York Times, and WGBH Radio Boston of the United States...
.Caitlin E. Curran, “How Occupy Wall Street Cost Me My Job”, Gawker, October 28, 2011 The next day she was fired by WNYC because “When Ms. Curran made the decision to participate in the protest and make herself part of the story, she violated our editorial standards.” Adam Clark Estes and Dino Grandoni, “Another Public Radio Freelancer Gets the Ax Over Occupy Wall Street”, The Atlantic, October 28, 2011
Forbes magazine has observed that the quote has “taken on a life of it's own”. Christopher Faille, “Don't Blame Goldman Sachs For Hedging Its Bets and Staying In Business”, Forbes magazine, October 18, 2011
The Philadelphia Daily News
Philadelphia Daily News
The Philadelphia Daily News is a tabloid newspaper that serves Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The newspaper is owned by Philadelphia Media Holdings which also owns Philadelphia's other major newspaper The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Daily News began publishing on March 31, 1925, under...
has used the quote as an illustration that the Occupy Wall Street movement is the first one to come with a “syllabus and a reading list”. Gary Thompson “'Margin Call' takes different view of a firm's failure”, Philadelphia Daily News, October 20, 2011