With the faulty reporting on the OWS movement by the mainstream media out in the open, do you think the same thing could have happened to the Tea Party Movement?

Seems like every time I see something in the mainstream media about Occupy Wallstreet, the information is incomplete at best or downright false at the worst. However, the only reason (that I know of) that this is so apparent is that social media has so much verifiable information about OWS that it’s fairly easy to see where the mainstream media is failing on their coverage.

My question is whether or not this happened to the Tea Party movement when that started up, and they did not have the media backing or the know-how with social media to make sure that their message was properly broadcasted.