http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0834348/

It’s pretty bad when IMDb is calling out CNN for poor news coverage. But seriously, more coverage would increase world sympathy for the Iranian people and that would make it harder to carpet bomb them when we’re done obliterating Iraq and Afghanistan.

My fear is less that amateurs will start being accepted as journalists, but that professional propagandists will use these tools to disseminate carefully crafted messages that are disguised as man-on-the-scene tweets and cell-phone imagery.

I know people want to believe that Twitter/Flickr/etc. spells the death of “old media”, but where’s the credibility that “real journalists” (mostly) had?

This is the real problem with “the wisdom of the crowd”; the crowd is mostly composed of gullible idiots.

“…Our network partners at NTT America recognize the role Twitter is currently playing as an important communication tool in Iran. Tonight’s planned maintenance has been rescheduled to tomorrow between 2-3p PST (1:30a in Iran)….”

http://tinyurl.com/ktwde6

when he tweeted for medical help for some of the students in the riots, i was floored.

and they weren’t idiots under the old media? Or in the voting booth?

or, he just thinks it’s interesting professional propaganda

wow.

Remember that.

It is true today, even more than usual.

There is still a lot of room for journalists to check their facts and get meaty interviews with the right people and there is still a market for quality writing – I still want the BBC or somebody to get an interview with a political leader – but it’s just a matter of doing what they can and not doing what they can’t.

BTW,
148.233.239.24 Port:80
69.92.182.124 port: 2100
128.112.139.28 port 31
#iranelection #iranelections

I find it interesting how this sway mirrors the recent downfall of the GOP. I wonder if they will react similarly, by becoming more hard-lined to appeal to a stubborn, but eroding base.

Also (learned from Twitter), it seems that at least one person is dead after Baseej opened fire in Azadi square. This from @persiankiwi, who seems to be the person to be following on Twitter right now for timely updates.

Via @stephenfry: Functioning Iran proxies:
218.128.112.18:8080
218.206.94.132:808
218.253.65.99:808
219.50.16.70:8080
#iranelection

(They’re timing out now though.)

Good luck guys, I’ve never followed a civil war in realtime before. I guess I should get used to it.

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