Media Decoder/New York Times:
Many of the journalists who traveled to Tehran to cover last Friday's election were in the country on one-week visas, and the country is rejecting requests for extensions.
"There are fewer of us each day," wrote Tim Marshall, the foreign affairs editor for the United Kingdom's Sky News, on Twitter Tuesday morning. By Wednesday, Mr. Marshall was back in London. He called it a "shame to leave."
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ONE IRAN COLLEGE PROFESSOR MADE A CLAIM THAT ELECTION WAS OBVIOUSLY STOLEN BUT THE MEDIA HAS NOT YET FOLLOWED UP ON HIS CLAIM, MADE ON CNN.
There was a professor from, I believe, Stanford who claimed yesterday that information came out that the vote counters had concluded that the reformer had won and even let out the information but immediately retracted and just put out phony results. This is what the Iranian public seems to be going on; they seem to think that the true election results were not released. Things are pretty hectic because it seems that the public is now very aware that they have rigged election. The question is how far they will take things. Prior election was also rigged but the media has not pointed out this out.
The way to support the Iranian public is to make sure that this information, if true, is widely publicized.
Journalists are under threat in Iran. They face threats in the Palestinian authority areas often if they don't report what the Palestinian government wants. Same is true in Venezuela and China and Syria. Hundreds of students "disappeared" in the rallies of 1999 at Iranian universities. The number of extra judicial executions in Iran number in the thousands. Just check the Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch web site.
Same is true for Israel ....rember GAZA
US wanted to take down Al-Jazeera
Heard of "Sami Al-Hajj " Al-Jazeera reporter kept in Guntanamo Bay for 6 years ,,, just google it man
and open your eyes................
Or AP reporter from Iraq kept in custody by US(Land of the Free(neocon) and the Brave(coward))
Rethink your comments. Israel never threatens the free media and has one of the most robust medias in the world. The US did nothing to Al Jazeera. As for your "reporter" kept in Guantanamo, it was not because the U.S. did not like his reporting. Don't even think of equating the banning of the press in Iran to any restrictions in Israel, it does not wash with any fair minded person.
Well i am not supporting any one but it's to give the american citizens a fairer view of the world we all live in.
The Iranian regime is cowering in fear, and that's because they fear what Chileans call "the cleansing power of the truth."
To paraphrase Gloria Steimen, the truth is setting the Iranian people free and taking it to the streets in defiance. But it first had pissed them off.
It is time for any journalist who values his life to get out of there or to stop reporting until things settle down.
It's not just the journalists who are in danger. The locals they are working with (drivers, translators, etc.) who are in even more danger. The journalists who overstay their visas put themselves at risk, and some would be willing to do it, but they would be exposing their associates to even more risk and it is often for their safety that the journalists leave once their visas expire. It's happened before and sadly it will happen again.
I think FOX News should send all of its commentators over there, just to check things out. Please, please go, you guys...
he!! yeah!
Is there a fund we can donate to?
Best idea I've heard in a long time...
I am getting so tired of watching the cable news networks and seeing how they eliminate intellectual debate. Just watched CNN and they had two Iran students on, one favoring each of the two candidates in opposition. Each was allowed to make comments, and the moderator didn't question any substance of either, nor was either allowed to respond to the other's stated opinion because "Sorry, we don't have time before the break" is heard TIME AGAIN on MSNBC AND FOX as well! We never get to hear responses to whatever view is stated, allowing anyone, Karl Rove, Dick Morris, whomever, to spout off without possibility of being rebutted.Fox in particular seldom has any semblance of 'fair and balanced', heck I could decimate most of Rove's or Morris's chirpings. Bob Beckel (D)is a stated friend of Sean's and that other former Clinton guy is weak as puppy poopl The news channels have become puppets to their advertising revenue. Commercials, commercials, commercials. Then they come back with some innate section instead of completing what was possibly intellectual discourse. Remember when the reason we paid for cable was NO COMMERCIALS. Now they rule the conversation. And in between, we get speechs, not dialog.
The Revolution will not be televised.
It will be Twittered.
Well put, Ernestine,
Yup.
In many respects--it reminds me of our own civil rights movement, which might not have been a success without the media. Just a new form now.
Everyone who loves the right to cast a vote, should put on a green arm band and support them.
In the situation that is occurring in Iran currently, Stealth Citizen Journalists documenting the events are far more effective at getting the story out than the credentialed formality of corporate Journalists. For raw coverage of the Iranian Uprising it is hard to see any better information delivery mechanism than Twitter and YouTube.
reporters are like aid workers. open season has been declaired on them.
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