{"id":33983,"date":"2011-03-01T13:39:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T18:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=33983"},"modified":"2013-11-14T04:44:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T09:44:14","slug":"on-media-coverage-of-the-wisconsin-protests-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/03\/01\/on-media-coverage-of-the-wisconsin-protests-2\/","title":{"rendered":"On Media Coverage of the Wisconsin Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/02\/128.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33963\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/02\/128.jpg\" width=\"492\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve posted previously on <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/05\/lack-of-global-news-coverage-in-the-u-s\/\">the tendency of the U.S. media to ignore the rest of the world (in favor of Britney Spears)<\/a>, even <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/07\/26\/american-vs-international-news-time-and-newsweek\/\">changing the cover of magazines sold in the U.S., but not elsewhere, in ways that coddle our ethnocentrism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Given this phenomenon, this\u00a0four-minute clip from a Russia Today news program (in English) is particularly striking. \u00a0The reporter\u00a0notes that the U.S. media is covering the ongoing foreign political protests more thoroughly, and with more positive enthusiasm, than it has the protests in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1mI--Ar8Ry0\" height=\"390\" width=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Abby Kinchy, fellow UW-Madison alum and Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, for the tip.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve posted previously on the tendency of the U.S. media to ignore the rest of the world (in favor of Britney Spears), even changing the cover of magazines sold in the U.S., but not elsewhere, in ways that coddle our ethnocentrism. Given this phenomenon, this\u00a0four-minute clip from a Russia Today news program (in English) is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12508,64,129,3920,85],"class_list":["post-33983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activismsocial-movements","tag-globalization","tag-media","tag-nation-united-states","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33983"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59057,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33983\/revisions\/59057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}