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| Iran's Revolutionary Guards issue warning to media |
| 2009-06-18 |
| TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's most powerful military force is warning online media of a crackdown over their coverage of the country's election crisis. The Revolutionary Guards, an elite body answering to the supreme leader, says Iranian Web sites and bloggers must remove any materials that "create tension" or face legal action. It is the Guards' first public statement since the crisis erupted following the presidential election last Friday. Iranian reformist Web sites as well as blogs and Western Web sites like Facebook and Twitter have been vital conduits for Iranians to inform the world about protests over the declaration of election victory for hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The government barred foreign media Tuesday from leaving their offices to report on the street protests. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #8 Credit where due, indeed, liberal hawk. (I;m glad you're back!) The Wall Street Journal has a female reporter, with what sounds to be an Iranian name, on the ground in Tehran. She did a telephone interview with NPR today in the early afternoon. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-06-18 16:29 |
| #7 Afaict the problem with cable news isnt ideological, its that theyd rather cover celebrity "news". CNN has been doing better, but only after they were shamed into it. |
| Posted by: liberal hawk 2009-06-18 15:30 |
| #6 yes lh, some sites and media are following it Not so much however for NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN. I remember a CNN guy saying that they whitewashed the coverage of Saddam's depredations in order to keep access (hey what's a few tens of thousands of torture victims anyway when you could get one or two newsbreaker interviews with a deputy to the dictator). |
| Posted by: Lord garth 2009-06-18 15:25 |
| #5 in fairness to the leftwing shills, New York Times, BBC, and even, god save us, the Guardian have been doing yeomans work in getting news out of Iran. To give credit to right wing shills, Wall Street Journal I am told is doing a great job as well. In the blogosphere the good work has been across ideological lines, including lefty Huffington Post, neocon Michael Totten, and hysterical Andrew Sullivan. |
| Posted by: liberal hawk 2009-06-18 12:22 |
| #4 Now if we could only get them to warn ABC, CBS, MSNBC, and the other left wing shills over here... |
| Posted by: Francis 2009-06-18 12:16 |
| #3 We can count they're taking notes at the White House. They'll be speaking, in a Chicago Way(c), to FOX when the time comes. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-06-18 10:11 |
| #2 Nice of them to warn before shooting. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-06-18 05:18 |
| #1 Rat Boy's Brownshirts. |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2009-06-18 01:02 |