Just in case you thought Old Media wasn’t dead yet
It took several hours before the lovable losers in the mainstream media even realized that people in Iran might actually be a tad upset about the “election” last week. This came about because of a combination of a few things:
- The media was smart enough to realize right off the bat that Obama wasn’t picking up on the story, so they had no reason to play it up.
- The media also recognized how terrible it would look for the Obama Doctrine to show that even Iranians don’t see Ahmadinejad as a legitimate leader while Obama courts him as aggressively as better than he does with our actual allies like Germany and the UK.
- Meanwhile, the MSM didn’t care about the media blackout throughout the Islamic Republic, because it gave them a great excuse for not doing any work on the story and just making it very mysterious, and making the clampdown the beginning and end of the story.
- What they forgot about was Twitter. The ability for people to use Twitter is essentially the only reason why the story has existed. Without it, there’s a total blackout, a lot more people get killed, and Iran looks like it has democracy. And you know it has to be a big deal when Hillary’s State Department tries to claim credit for it.
The media’s incredible inability to know how to handle this story is hilarious, but even I even find some sadness in it. Amazingly, the left and right are both rallying around the “green revolution” and wanting to hear more about it, and are practically in full support of the cause.
But we all ought to tread carefully: Mousavi, the opposition leader, has been involved in as much nasty stuff as Ahmadinejad, if not worse. “Reform” in this instance might just be as much “change” as an Obama administration has brought to things like the war on terror and “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”– in other words, it just looks liked it changed, when nothing has ever been done.
[Iran Protests: Tech Tools at Work - PC World]
[U.S. State Department speaks to Twitter over Iran - Reuters]
[Who is Mir Hossein Mousavi Really? - NewMajority.com (yeh, I know)]
