The Occupy Wall Street protest, inspired in part by uprisings against corrupt power in Egypt and the rest of the Arab world, has in turn inspired protests nationwide and around the globe. International news outlets have been following the American demonstrations closely often more closely than American media outlets.
Pro-democracy protesters in Egypt marched to the U.S. Embassy in support of Occupy Oakland, in part to attract international attention for their cause by playing up the similarities between the story of Occupy Oakland police brutality victim Scott Olsen and the death of 24-year-old prisoner Essam Ali Atta at the hands of the military junta currently ruling Egypt.
But one nations press in particular was an early and enthusiastic driver of OWS coverage: Iran. Recorded Future is a company that performs predictive analysis of events by monitoring Internet sources. (Its future-forecasting efforts are funded by both Google and the CIA.) After they made this neat visualization of the international spread of OWS-related demonstrations, Recorded Future analysts noted that according to their interpretation of media links, the biggest non-American media influencer in terms of OWS coverage was Irans English-language Press TV....
