The Iranian Twitter Revolution That Never Was

It amazes me that the author of this article would even dare believe any accounts of report being broadcast on the Iranian state television.

The state television and it's English subsidiary Press TV function like a closed-circuit camera to channel the regimes agenda. Anyone in that bubble is fed with news that is falsified, made by hired actors for the purpose of complete and utter propaganda.

I happen to be attending an uncles funeral in Iran, just two weeks before the June 2009 disputed elections.

Every time I would tune into the state TV, I was dumbfounded. I felt like a child, being told children stories. For a Canadian, having access to multiple news channels and perspective, this was very freighting.

News has no meaning there, because everything is manufactured. You think fox is bad? Try to imagine being told of a false story repeatedly, on every of the 7-12 state channels. There's no other alternative programming (unless you have access to illegal satellites) which the lower class cannot even afford.

Anyway, with that said, this twitter revolution did what no other mechanism could do. Shift the western mentality towards Iran and Iranian youth.

That itself is a remarkable thing and I think twitter, youtube and citizen news helped make it happen.