IRAN

more frustration with the US News

so i checked the news today, and suddenly everybody is interested in the election in Iran. Yes, The press is notorious for expecting Americans to have short attention spans, and yes, most of us do, but what is frustrating to me is that Obama gave a hugical speech in Cairo last week and no one seemed to even mention it. first of all, he only indirectly alluded to it in his speech, via "we support democratic governments, womens rights, yadayadayada".... Ii you were watching TV, you had to be at the right place at the right time, the night OF, or the morning after. newspapers and internet articles mentioned it, often in a single sentence. if you didn't know before you read this blog, and ask yourself "the elections are when?" I had to go to BBC to find a complete paragraph about the Iranian election, and Al Jazeera to find a "subarticle" (or whatever, i dont know what to call it. the newspaper divedes articles into sections)

most of the coverage about Iran was focused on: right says, "He talked about the CIA take over!" left says "Who cares?" right says, "Obama is the ME's bitch!" left says "nuh uhhhh!". anchorman with microphone says, "in fact Obama dedicated hardly any time in his speech to Iran, in comparison with Israel/Palestine, Iraq, and Iraq/Pakistan." did they not realize a whole bunch of stuff in the speech was aimed at the Iranian electorate! serisously, though, these are reporters, not meteorologists. can they not see six days forward?


we might be able to get some real change (ha ha) in Iran and no one is talking about it but the Middle East and The BBC???????

-p