Posted on 12/30/2017 6:42:05 PM PST by Rummyfan
As widespread anti-regime protests in Iran continue on into their third day, American news audiences are starting to wonder why the US media has devoted so little coverage to such dramatic—and possibly history-making—events. Ordinary people are taking their lives in their hands to voice their outrage at the crimes of an obscurantist regime that has repressed them since 1979, and which attacks and shoots dead them in the streets. So why aren’t the protests in Iran making headlines?
The short answer is that the American media is incapable of covering the story, because its resources and available story-lines for Iran reporting and expertise were shaped by two powerful official forces—the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the Obama White House. Without government minders providing them with story-lines and experts, American reporters are simply lost—and it shows.
t nearly goes without saying that only regime-friendly Western journalists are allowed to report from Iran, which is an authoritarian police state that routinely tortures and murders its political foes. The arrest and nearly two-year detention of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian drove this point home to American newsrooms and editors who might not have been paying attention. The fact that Rezaian was not an entirely hostile voice who showed “the human side” of the country only made the regime’s message more terrifying and effective: We can find you guilty of anything at any time, so watch your step.
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Why can’t they?
More like why won’t they?
Will make Zero look too bad. He supported these mullahs.
He and Val The Lizard Queen are deeply saddened.
It is killing them that their political buds are not in charge.
They are not trusted by most of the American public.
They have jumped the shark.
They are way past their past due date.
And what was gained? America enriched and strengthened a soon-to-be nuclear regime that murders its neighbors abroad while torturing, oppressing, and impoverishing its own citizens. Whether the current wave of protests is successful or not, they show that the Iranian people are heartily sick of the regime that Obama and his servants spent eight years of his Presidency praising and propping up.
Just get out there and cover it yourselves. Yes, I'm talking to you too Breitbart. If you want to be in the big leagues, you've got to blaze your own trail. Instead of harping on the sidelines during a playground basketball game that you got more skills than the people playing.
No I'm serious. Stop bitching about what Scarborough said last night and create the news on your own. Half of Breitbart is commentating on what other news media have ran with. Why can't they just BE the news themselves?
The regime has already murdered at least 3 protestors yet the bad joke of a media in this country does not see the event as newsworthy.
At this point, anybody who says he has faith in the American media is doing nothing more than outing himself as a radical leftist.
They don’t want to
homobama’s eight years of abject failure laid bare?
During Obama’s “arab spring” revolution, the only uprising he did not support was in Iran.
Because it would lead to Barry giving these cretins 1.6B in cash and bullion. Hard to explain that one to the libtards.
Only Trump dares go there, and I see it unfolding.
“why aren’t the protests in Iran making headlines?”
Because nobody cares about it?
Indeed!
I’ve seen coverage by The Washington Post,The New York Times,CNN, and ABC-——among others.
Seem OK to me.
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