Because mostly? People are too fucking stoopid to pay attention.
So many are critical of the Occupy movement, but they really cannot give any relevant facts or reasons for being that way.
Just soundbites.
GET A JOB! Lazy dirty hippies. Wealthy college kids! Throw every stereotype out there and the media will glom onto all of them simultaneously, and they will be repeated by lazy Joe’s and Jane’s all over the land.
The corporate media all play deaf blind and dumb to the actual message so they do not have to acknowledge what is going on, and why the 99% are getting restless.
The facts that should speak for themselves, they have been evident now for some years. (That link is to an article from 2006) Those same facts that are also to be found in any history book.