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Saturday, June 20, 2009
Meanwhile, in Iran
It's a little staggering how little information the nightly news gives you about what's going on in Iran. It's not like nobody is there.
I eagerly await each new Cohen column. Not only is he there, on the ground, his writing is fantastic. I'm honestly shocked (in a good way) that he's still there. I can't believe the Iranian government (thugocracy, as some have been calling it) hasn't found him and deported/arrested him.
And the best part about watching CNN this past weekend was that their (largely uninspired) coverage of Iran managed to be about as defensive as a news program can be. I couldn't count the number of times they talked about their being ordered not to report anything from Tehran.
The Economist ran a sidebar article entitled "Twitter 1 CNN 0" in their latest issue. Think they were aware of that? Judging by the defensiveness, I'm going to go with "yes".
I thought Kathleen Parker had a good column about Iran today.....it was in our newspaper today, anyway.
ReplyDeleteI eagerly await each new Cohen column. Not only is he there, on the ground, his writing is fantastic. I'm honestly shocked (in a good way) that he's still there. I can't believe the Iranian government (thugocracy, as some have been calling it) hasn't found him and deported/arrested him.
ReplyDeleteAnd the best part about watching CNN this past weekend was that their (largely uninspired) coverage of Iran managed to be about as defensive as a news program can be. I couldn't count the number of times they talked about their being ordered not to report anything from Tehran.
The Economist ran a sidebar article entitled "Twitter 1 CNN 0" in their latest issue. Think they were aware of that? Judging by the defensiveness, I'm going to go with "yes".