The Daily Mail said the club banned McClean from Twitter after his tweet prompted wide media coverage.

BBC: James McClean

The issue has become embroiled with a racial campaign led by Pauline Hanson, an independent member of the federal Parliament, whose controversial remarks about aborigines and Asians have received wide media coverage.

ECONOMIST: Australia

Incidents of SLA soldiers and officers acting as double agents for Hizbullah were given wide coverage in the Israeli media.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Lebanon's legacy in Afghanistan

He has marketed the cause of Indian rights outside Mexico with huge skill, achieving wide coverage in the international media, setting up a snazzy home page on the Internet, and attracting a flood of donations from foreigners.

ECONOMIST: The Mexicans treated as aliens in their own country

Those cases received wide coverage in China's media and sparked online criticism of what many viewed as a tepid response from the Chinese government.

WSJ: China Urges North Korea to Free Fishermen

Mr Gore's announcement in March that the administration is proposing an amnesty for immigrants who came illegally to America before 1986 got wide coverage in the Spanish-language media.

ECONOMIST: Special-interest groups