Truthdigger of the Week: Jesse LaGreca

Posted on Oct 7, 2011

Every week, Truthdig recognizes an individual or group of people who spoke truth to power, blew the whistle or stood up in the face of injustice. You can see past winners here, and make your own nomination for our next awardee here.
 

An article in The New York Observer this week pointed out that Fox News has “generally been a tad dismissive of the Occupy Wall Street movement.” With zero references to the protest on the Fox News homepage, that’s quite an understatement. But what Fox News has done to cover the protest is send a reporter out to ask questions in what appeared to be a ploy to rile up the participants. Fox News did succeed in pushing the buttons of at least one Occupy Wall Street protester, who in turn responded with such clarity and fortitude in support of the movement that his message gained viral attention, despite the fact that Fox News ultimately left the entire interview on the cutting room floor. That protester, Jesse LaGreca, is our Truthdigger of the Week.