Lee Smith, Tablet: Why Can’t the American Media Cover the Protests in Iran?
Because they have lost the ability to cover real news when it happens
As widespread anti-regime protests in Iran continue on into their third day, American news audiences are starting to wonder why the US media has devoted so little coverage to such dramatic—and possibly history-making—events. Ordinary people are taking their lives in their hands to voice their outrage at the crimes of an obscurantist regime that has repressed them since 1979, and which attacks and shoots dead them in the streets. So why aren’t the protests in Iran making headlines?
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WNU Editor: The above writer is no friend of the Iran regime and he is definitely not a supporter of President Obama's policy of outreach to the mullahs. But he does have a point on how slow and sloppy the U.S. news media has been on this story. And even today .... after 3 days of protests .... the international news media is still the place to go for in-depth stories and analysis on what is happening in Iran. And note his explanation on why this is the case ....
.... Networks like like CNN and MSNBC which have gambled their remaining resources and prestige on a #Resist business model are in even deeper trouble. Providing media therapy for a relatively large audience apparently keen to waste hours staring at a white truck obscuring the country club where Donald Trump is playing golf is their entire business model—a Hail Mary pass from a business that had nearly been eaten alive by Facebook and Google. First down! So it doesn’t matter how many dumb Trump-Russia stories the networks, or the Washington Post, or the New Yorker get wrong, as long as viewership and subscriptions are up—right?
The problem, of course, is that the places that have obsessively run those stories for the past year aren’t really news outfits—not anymore. They are in the aromatherapy business. And the karmic sooth-sayers and yogic flyers and mid-level political operators they employ as “experts” and “reporters” simply aren’t capable of covering actual news stories, because that is not part of their skill-set.
Update: Yup .... CNN's coverage has been lacking .... Why Does CNN Maintain a Twitter Blackout on This Major Event? (Red State).
Update #2: So true ....
.... Anyone on Twitter could click #IranProtests and view videos and eyewitness accounts that contradicted much of Western media’s early reporting about these protests being simply about economic anxiety as was the case with The New York Times and Washington Post. ....
.... (Iran's protests are powerful and real. Why are mainstream media outlets so hesitant to report on them?, FOX News).
Cnn only picked up the story after trump tweeted about it. Then they had to. I think trump did very well this time in shining the spotlight on these protests, while cnn continues to underperform.
ReplyDeleteThe Washington Democrat establishment, a.k.a swamprats, hate Russia due to electoral interference or so they claim.
ReplyDeleteIran is Russia's biggest ally. Russia, China, and Iran could win a war against the U.S. I put the odds north pf say 50%.
But the swamprats do want to see the Ayatollahs to go.
It doesn't make sense.
Sounds like very bad news in store for the Pentagonians.
ReplyDeleteSounds like very bad news in store for the Left.
ReplyDeleteTheir narrative will meet with reality and go up in smoke.