Iran revolt?

03.14.2004

Not yet on major media. Since no one cares about it, apparently. But it seems a major revolt against the Iranian dictatorship — which just hosted sham elections — is under way. It started in the little town of Fereydunkenar. Here's more. The Iranian pro-democracy movement — ignored even my Indymedia.org — has been forced into the only corner of freedom left: the internet. Most Iranian blogs fell silent after the mullarchy "won" its election (an election in which no reformist candidates were allowed to run). No surpsie on the silence. You can go to jail (or worse) for blogging in Iran.

But. Here's a major event — in politics, in the war on terror, in the Middle East. Where's CNN? BBC? New York Times? Is anyone gonna cover this?! Why do I have to learn about this from weblogs? The revolt started on 13 March 6:30pm in Iran. It's now 14 March 9:44pm in Bolivia. Making it well over 24 hours (close to 36, actually). Why's the only reference to this from Google News here?

Posted by Miguel at 09:44 PM

Comments

Because access by the western press is weak and they'd only be able to give it a 5 second comment so they ignore it. Video is everything these days, so the bloggers should start rolling tape and send it abroad.

Posted by: Scott Barnard at March 15, 2004 09:47 AM

Yep, I think video blogs will start trouncing TV news pretty soon, too. It's the natural next step.

Posted by: Miguel at March 15, 2004 09:51 AM