"How we'd cover Ferguson if it happened in another country"

[krispos42]

How we'd cover Ferguson if it happened in another country

Updated by Max Fisher on August 15, 2014, 11:40 a.m. ET


How would American media cover the news from Ferguson, Missouri, if it were happening in just about any other country? How would the world respond differently? Here, to borrow a great idea from Slate's Joshua Keating, is a satirical take on the story you might be reading if Ferguson were in, say, Iraq or Pakistan.


FERGUSON — Chinese and Russian officials are warning of a potential humanitarian crisis in the restive American province of Missouri, where ancient communal tensions have boiled over into full-blown violence.

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The crisis began a week ago in Ferguson, a remote Missouri village that has been a hotbed of sectarian tension. State security forces shot and killed an unarmed man, which regional analysts say has angered the local population by surfacing deep-seated sectarian grievances. Regime security forces cracked down brutally on largely peaceful protests, worsening the crisis.

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Though Ferguson's streets remained quiet on Friday, a palpable sense of tension and uncertainty hung in the air. A Chinese Embassy official here declined to comment but urged all parties to exhibit restraint and respect for the rule of law. In Moscow, Kremlin planners were said to be preparing for a possible military intervention should political instability spread to the nearby oil-producing region of Texas.

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Full article:

http://www.vox.com/2014/8/15/6005587/ferguson-satire-another-country-russia-china

Ouch.

The neocon is on the other foot...

[Lurks Often]

1. That presumes American news sources would even bother to report it in the first place

[krispos42]

2. Hmmm... if somehow this would threaten the supply of iNouns... n/t

[951-Riverside]

4. They didnt for the first 2 days, the live streamers kind of forced them to.

I predict the police will be turning off cellphone towers in the near future.

They did it in San Francisco a few years ago.

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. No need to imagine how it would be covered, really

there's ample evidence of it, what was the US news coverage of the riots in London back in 2011 like? What was US coverage of the riots in France in 2009 like?