As a journalist, I cannot say that what I have read and seen today is the whole story: everything is too piecemeal, too unconfirmable, too one-sided. But experiencing the raw feed of history has been chilling. As we try to carve out the truth from the speculation and relentlessly repeated reports of outrage, the overall impression is one of immense sadness and tragedy, of a country seeking to preserve itself by destroying itself.
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What the World Didn’t See in Tehran - TIME This “raw feed of history” is why social media such as Twitter are so important - they put a human face to events, rather than providing the more sanitised version that is often put forward by more formal channels. This is why the video of Neda, the young woman shot to death in Tehran, is so arresting, and why sentences like “State television said that 10 people had died, while radio reports said 19” (via) have so little effect on people. This is why we’re all so glued to information coming quickly and directly out of Iran. (via buyhercandy) |
