Posted on 12/30/2017 9:22:46 PM PST by GonzoII
For all the squabbling that social media platforms are notorious for, their relevance to the media landscape plays an important role in times of protest.
This was evident with Black Lives Matter, among other movements. It’s been evident for the past three days in Iran, where thousands have taken to streets and public squares calling for an end to the hardline conservative regime of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The question that needs to be asked right now is why traditional mainstream media outlets – grandstanding over their importance in this new, bold era of fact-checking and truth-telling – have largely ignored a blossoming revolution.
Anyone on Twitter could click #IranProtests and view videos and eyewitness accounts that contradicted much of Western media’s early reporting about these protests being simply about economic anxiety as was the case with The New York Times and Washington Post.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
"Overseeing the fall of an oppressive, hardline Iranian regime that sponsors terror all around the globe – followed by the rise of a democratic Iran not interested in aggression against its neighbors – would be a foreign policy victory for President Trump, one of the biggest for a president since the fall of the Berlin Wall."
Because the media loves them some muzzie terror, like Carter they approve of everything the Ayatollahs do.
Any threat to their pets, they freak out over it.
If they were demonstrating against Trump it would be headlines in all of the media 24/7.
Not Fake Snooze
Twitter is the main stream media now. Without it and cellphone cameras, this revolution would not be known to Americans.
Not their monkeys.
Social media came to a halt when another video was shared on Twitter of a female activist, shedding her hijab and waving a makeshift flag at security forces while standing atop a container.
I’m not exactly sure why an Iranian woman would shed such a garment that we’ve been told by the political left of this country is a symbol of empowerment and feminism. But her body, her choice.
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Massive narrative fail. Result - press blackout.
The medieval reactionary regime of the mullahs is simply not sustainable. It will eventually crumble as are most of the regimes in Islamic countries. Why? Islamic culture itself is simply not compatible with the values, practices and institutions that rational people given the choice want. The mullahs, the barbaric jihadists, the Saudi royals and the Islamic Turks all have in common a fearful reactionary posture that seeks to preserve their status, privlidge, wealth and the continued subordination of their people. Sorry but they cannot keep people docile and ignorant in the modern technological era. Instability and violence will continue for a long time throughout the Muslim world as it is forced to accommodate modernity and the desires of the people.
And because they don’t want people to remember that Obama did nothing to help the Iranian people the last time around.
Yup.
Wouldn’t put it past him to have secretly helped out the mullahs.
Yup.
Wouldn’t put it past him to have secretly helped out the mullahs.
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I agree.
Among other things to do with the Muslims, Valerie Jarrett was in charge of that.
Wonder where those skeletons are buried.
Wonder where those skeletons are buried.
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By now the CIA/Deep State/Swamp has destroyed them.
Hey fox news: perhaps the reason the other media is not covering the story is because they are NOT mainstream.
Perhaps we all should quit calling them that.
And if this uprising is real, perhaps we should embrace it, support it, and not worry about how CNN and the Washington post reacts to it.
True.
Wish the full dirt would come out.
Well said the old media is irrelevant who cares what those propagandists say adios fake news. My hope and prayers are with the freedom loving people of Persia
It would be a miracle, but miracles happen.
Happy New Year.
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