I spent yesterday out of the news loop helping H build a computer desk from scratch. I was thus very surprised last night, as I was relaxing on Twitter, to discover that Iranians were revolting against an obviously stolen election. A bigger shock to me was the lack of news coverage the rioting was receiving from our news channels. In fact, the only place I could get news was on Twitter under the topic #IranElection. Iranians were using camera phones to film the revolts, uploading the footage to Youtube, and tweeting updates. Some were taking photos and linking them to Twitter via Twitpic. Eventually, it was tweeted that the Iranian government was shutting down cell phone coverage and internet connections there to prevent this relaying of information. Through Twitter and Youtube, I was also able to find out that the BBC appeared to be the only news organization not lying down on the job.
This is just another instance lately of the Mainstream Media sleeping while the world gathers its own raw news.
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