Several media I watched on television did not give good coverage of the event on October 15, 2011. A couple of hundreds of people gathered around Taipei 101 and voiced their dissatisfaction with the current situation. The media used the word "chaos" (δΊ‚) to describe the event. The media showed a mocking tone when it reported that although close to 7,000 people liked the event on Facebook, only a few hundreds showed up. The media also said that the police was filming every protester's face because the businesses in the Taipei 101 building claimed that they will sue the protesters for hurting their business.
The interviews that the media conducted gave a negative light to the event. One visitor to Taipei 101 said, "If the businesses are pulling down their metal doors, it must mean that the protesters are doing something wrong to make the businesses react this way. [The protesters] should reflect on their actions." Besides this visitor, the only other voiced we heard in the media was a foreign tourist who said, "I think it's interesting, but I didn't think it would be here." Both interviews expressed negative reactions to the protesters. One foreign protester (with American accent) said that he participated in Occupy 101 to show solidarity with his friends in Occupy Wall Street. While I did not see all media coverage on this event, I get the sense that many Taiwanese media do not like protest or demonstrations in any form that take place in Taiwan. I saw one channel that reported on Occupy Wall Street in a positive light, while what was going on in Cairo as "riot."
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