From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

This is what democracy looks like.

Show me what democracy.

And that's the sound of Occupy Wall Street Thursday night outside New York City Hall.

The protesters are no longer allowed to pitch tents in Zucati Park near Wall Street,

leaving NSNBC's Ed Schultz to answer the obvious existential question

with the most rigorous of journalistic tools.

Tonight's question, will the raid on Zucati Park strengthen the 99% movement?

Text A for yes, text B for no to 622639.

So, is it A or B? Deprived of its iconic locale,

is it doomed? MIT civic media professor Sasha Kastanzi chock says that within what's been

portrayed as a spontaneous outcry, there's a lot of hidden media savvy.

Occupy, of course, has access to everything from face to face and print to real-time live streaming.

You have hand-painted signs, and then you have social media. You have techie activists

who are actually building entirely new tools. There's a lot of media makers who have lots of skills from previous

protest experience. And then when Occupy came around, they immediately got involved in

amplifying the voice of the movement. The people who set up the Global Revolution

livestream, which is a live streaming channel from New York, although there are now live streams from many of the

different camps, is a group called Glassbeed Collective and folks from the Twin Cities indie media.

And I first encountered them in 2008 during the Republican National Convention.

How important do you think the loss of the iconic location will be? Do you see the possibility that it could just

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