Foreign Coverage Often Trumped US Mainstream Media

Some of the most illuminating posts placed on the Media Coverage of WI Protests Facebook page we created were examples of coverage by the foreign media, whose reporters often took much more time talking to the protestors, and less time tied up with the official propaganda being put out by the Walker administration.  They even offered some of the only cogent analysis available about the fact how the mainstream media in the US was often missing the boat when it came to this home-grown pro-democracy rally story.

From Russia Today -- The Other Story: Home Made Uprising in Madison Wisconsin

A scathing and spot-on piece of analysis by the Russian RT news service, about how US mainstream coverage has obsessively covered pro-democracy protests in Egypt, Bahrain, and throughout the Middle East--but has failed to adequately cover the pro-democracy protests in its own Middle West.



As the accompanying narrative puts it: "The turbulence in the Arab world has drawn the full attention of the American media. Riots and demonstrations in Libya and Bahrain are dominating the news channels' at primetime, and the newspaper front pages. As Lauren Lyster reports, while U.S. leaders fly the flag for popular uprisings thousands of miles away, it's a very different story at home."

from the Youtube page of RT

Al-Jazeera was also a pervasive presence on Madison streets, offering frequent and in-depth reporting



Example of coverage from The Guardian: Wisconsin protests continue against 'union bashing'-- Thousands stand up for collective bargaining rights as Republicans set to replicate move to cut union rights across US

 Image from Cairo that received widespread distribution in various social media

Be sure to click on the "Older Posts" link below at the bottom of this page for many more examples of creative and inspiring social media examples from the Wisconsin Uprising....