Posted on 08/07/2002 9:24:36 AM PDT by xsysmgr
Simple, it's not their kind of "news".
Once we do that, we say "Yob tvoyu mat, OPEC." And go full-tilt boogie on `em.
Why not, some commandment or law of nature against it?
It would certainly be faster.
I would add that God helps those who help themselves!
Thanks for the update re the horrible consequences the Islamakazi Mullahs have brought on the people of Iran.
If the current Iranian regime was overturned it would be a huge victory in the war on Terror!
Prayers offered!
Coverage of dissent against the Iranian govt. would not confirm anti-Americanism. Therefore it is omitted and deemed unimportant by the media, and the chatty circles they look to for guidance.
The Mullahs have made "Death to America" a centerpiece of their power and ideology. Their religious rites have been transformed into hate sessions against "America" and the West. They call for our destruction, Khomeini called for us to be conquered. But this is ignored by our media. Why? Because the Mullahs are foreign and hate America, therefore they are privileged with legitimacy, and a feeling that they are "right." If they reported the Mullahs' beliefs closely, and the dissent in the country, this would only undermine the anti-American narrative structures they tailor their reporting with. Therefore this information is ignored or omitted.
Sometimes the news is to big to ignore, lest the media loses even more credibility. One solition for the politically correct is to spin some blame on America. Like throw away lines that Iranian reformers are stifled because of what Bush said in such and such speech. Besides salvaging an anti-American angle, this thinking is arrogant, narcissitic, and self-important - denying that the "other" has any nefarious or malicious motives and actions other than those responsive to America or the West, and that "we" control all events that are deemed "negative."
There will be no Iranian coverage. The asperations of the majority of Iranians may be similar to what the media elites feel for themselves and embrace. But this fellow-feeling is less important than maintaining anti-American narratives, or at least hanging on to them. Reportage about the region is around 90% about the identity-feelings of the reporter, not the feelings of the reported. Euro press, around 98% from what I can tell.
What's new about this?
All the way back prior to WWII the media never said anything about the horror that Stalin was delivering in Russia!
The media is not our friend!
Who is Antonio Gramsci? You Better Learn!!!
http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3a4c610569be.htm
Original Sin
http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3b80051c3e46.htm
Have these events been reported in any other outlets?
These comments from your side of the ocean make this article even more important. Thank you!
The silence is because these people rather hide the fact that people living in Iran are sick and tired of the rule of the ayatollahs. They have indeed been promoted as alomst as good as socialism by the lefties.
It's just like with Reagan. Here in the Netherlands most people thought he was wrong about the communists being the empire of evil, because the media never said anything bad about the their comradski.
But after the fall of the wall we now see that Reagan was right after all.
This will also happen in Iran. ===========================================================
If the Islamakazi Mullahs are dethroned and become heads on pikes, no one but the left wing mediots will mourn them.
The people already want the mullahs gone, so why would they side with the mullahs. Working behind the scenes means we have something to hide.
As has been repeatedly said by the Soviet dissidents, Reagan openly labeling the Soviet Union an evil empire encouraged more anti-Sovietism not less.
You should reread what Ledeen wrote today and yesterday. America openly siding with the people against the mullahs would only make things go faster.
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