The same media coverage that built Occupy Wall Street also destroyed it.
In 61 days.
Researchers Allison, Grimes, McKenny & Short (Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2021) analyzed 8,473 newspaper articles across 436 Occupy sites to answer a simple question: how did a movement with no formal leadership and no policy agenda spread to hundreds of cities. Then vanish?
The answer is a paradox nobody talks about enough.
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