The occupation of Wall Street has now entered its third week and protests are spreading like wildfire throughout the country.

As the protests continue to grow, the media is increasingly taking notice. Yet many of these media outlets are insisting on referring to the protests as "anti-capitalist." Here are just a few examples:

- The Washington Post: The leading paper wrote today that "New York's budding anti-capitalism protest movement began last month with a vague sense of grievance over the widening gap between the rich and poor in America." [10/3/11]

The Occupy Wall Street movement spread to Chicago this week, where protesters have gathered outside the Chicago Board of Trade, the world's oldest options and futures trading center. Like the protesters in New York and other cities around the country, the group gathered to protest our nation's growing income inequality, as the top 1 percent of Americans continue to see their incomes rise rapidly and their tax rates fall. The Chicago traders, confronted by the protesters' "We are the 99 percent" message, crafted their own not-so-subtle reply, hanging signs in eighth-floor windows that said, "We are the 1%":

On Monday, an Italian appeals court threw out Amanda Knox's murder conviction and freed the 24-year-old after she spent almost four years in prison, but HLN host and Dancing with the Stars contestant Nancy Grace feels justice was not served.

"I was very disturbed, because I think it is a huge miscarriage of justice," Nancy told Access Hollywood' s Shaun Robinson after Monday's "DWTS" when asked about the high profile trial that also saw her co-defendant, Raffaele Sollecito, cleared of killing 21-year-old Meredith Kercher in 2007.

"I believe that while Amanda Knox did not wield the knife herself, I think that she was there, with her boyfriend, and that he did the deed, and that she egged him on. That's what I think happened," Nancy said, sharing her opinion.

Although the court overturned the conviction primarily based on discredited DNA evidence, Knox says she was not there the night of the murder, the Associated Press reported.

San Francisco - Steve Jobs, the innovative co-founder of Apple who transformed personal use of technology as well as entire industries with products such as the iPod, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh computer and the iTunes music store, has died.

The Apple chairman was 56.

The iconic American CEO, whose impact many have compared to auto magnate Henry Ford and Walt Disney - whom Jobs openly admired - abruptly stepped down from his position as CEO of Apple in August because of health concerns. He had been suffering from pancreatic cancer.

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, a former Apple board member, called Jobs the best CEO of the past 50 years - perhaps 100 years.

Like the spokesmen for Arab dictators feigning bewilderment over protesters' demands, mainstream television news reporters finally training their attention on the growing Occupy Wall Street protest movement seem determined to cast it as the random, silly blather of an ungrateful and lazy generation of weirdos. They couldn't be more wrong and, as time will tell, may eventually be forced to accept the inevitability of their own obsolescence.

Consider how CNN anchor Erin Burnett, covered the goings on at Zuccotti Park downtown, where the protesters are encamped, in a segment called "Seriously?!" "What are they protesting?" she asked, "nobody seems to know." Like Jay Leno testing random mall patrons on American History, the main objective seemed to be to prove that the protesters didn't, for example, know that the U.S. government has been reimbursed for the bank bailouts. It was condescending and reductionist.

More predictably perhaps, a Fox News reporter appears flummoxed in this outtake from "On the Record," in which the respondent refuses to explain how he wants the protests to "end." Transcending the shallow partisan politics of the moment, the protester explains "As far as seeing it end, I wouldn't like to see it end. I would like to see the conversation continue."

To be fair, the reason why some mainstream news journalists and many of the audiences they serve see the Occupy Wall Street protests as incoherent is because the press and the public are themselves. It is difficult to comprehend a 21st century movement from the perspective of the 20th century politics, media, and economics in which we are still steeped.

OccupyWallStreet protester 'Chris' with a spot-on and passionate speech regarding ending the Federal Reserve, minimizing the Federal Government, ending the Fractional Reserve Banking System, ending the Monetary Fiasco that is the government-controlled FIAT money system & ending the Wars that were engineered to make the richest 1% even richer. We also need to have an independent audit and inventory of all the gold reserves in the USA. We need to hold the Bankers and Elite responsible for their crimes against humanity... End the Fed, End the Wars & End the Corruption!!

Dear patsy hunters,

I am not a "lone operator", nor am I a radical. I am neither a wolf, extremist, thug, or hippopotamus. Violence is your profession, not mine. Please reserve your analysis until you've either been partially educated, or have at least discovered a multi-page dictionary. You have the mind of a lion, and the heart of a heavily contested egg. Consult a mirror for the perfect patsy.

Apparently the police can dictate what you display in your own window -- by cutting the glass and removing whatever it may be. And if that fails to discourage you from expressing yourself, then a SWAT team will help you.(1)

These people were protesting the murder of yet another unarmed civilian by police-thugs (Barry Deloatch). Despite the legitimate cause for the protest, the police -- with their well-expressed appetite for violence -- attended the event for the sake of beating the moribund horse of free-speech further toward a final breath.

While some occupy Wall Street, other locations are occupied by similar protesters, and such locations and protesters are multiplying. For the sake of not stirring a hornet's nest, I'll not directly quote Malcolm X regarding self-defense, but those who know, know. For those who don't, listen -- to the whole speech.

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have staged protest rallies against Washington's unilateral support for the Israeli regime while an official US delegation is on a tour of the area.

US diplomats were on their way to an event for graduates and other beneficiaries of US programs in Ramallah on Tuesday, Ma'an news agency reported.

Demonstrators also criticized the US for trying to block their attempt to receive full membership at the UN. They chanted anti-US slogans, saying "USAID go home" and "Shame on you."

The protest effort was in response to the latest effort by pro-Israel members of the US Congress to withhold USD 200 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) over Ramallah's bid for UN statehood.

Citibank is following the lead from some of it's competitors and raising some of it's fees.

Starting in December, the minimum balance for mid-level accounts will go up from $6,000 to $15,000
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Anyone who doesn't maintain that balance will have to pay $20 a month.

Customers with EZ checking accounts will be charged $15 a month if they don't keep a balance of $6,000.

The bank is also hiking fees on basic banking accounts from $8-$10 a month.

These moves follow similar announcements from Bank of America, Wells Fargo, J.P Morgan Chase, and others.