Leigh got me thinking about this question yesterday...So from the news that I've collected around the football slave trade (some of which I've posted to the blog), this story had some legs back in the early 2000's. Since then, the problem has evolved, becoming more entrenched and legitimatized. News stories continue to surface now and again, and more academics have investigated (but who reads academics anyway?), but is the 'slave trade' a controversy with broad public consciousness among football fans? Are people aware? Do they care? Do people simply feel impotent to do anything?
What does make a controversy stick -- or slip quietly into the background? What makes a social issue publicly salient, and gives it weight in the media-sphere?
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