There are always Americans with a deep-seated belief that US society needs radical change; many of those are journalists. From about 1975 to about 2015 however

There are always Americans with a deep-seated belief that US society needs radical change; many of those are journalists. From about 1975 to about 2015 however US society was stable and radical change was very unlikely, so the radical journalists focused vast amounts of their attention on Occupy Wall Street because for a few years it was the movement most likely to cause radical change (that the journalists knew about) even though the actual likelihood was very low. Again, some journalists (and others) are constantly hoping for radical change; during periods of societal stability, that constant hope will result in their focusing on very slim hopes for radical change -- resulting in ridiculous exaggeration in the press of the importance of movements like Occupy Wall Street.