in case you weren't already convinced

[solarbird]

If you weren't already convinced of the American media's complete and wretched incompetence, dereliction of duty, and propaganda-lacky degeneracy given - just for example - the continued whitewashing of the American torture regime, the fact that they are essentially completely missing the coup d'etat and possible second revolution in Iran should seal the deal for you. Andrew Sullivan is doing the best he can to collate and relay material coming in from twitter and foreign services that are actually covering what's going on. Here is his weekend summary post, with a zillion links. There's more coverage at The Huffington Post.

Or, you can watch CNN, which spent the weekend talking about the Jonas Brothers and tomato-throwing contests. Go ahead.

eta: Green in support of the student protesters killed by the Iranian government.

Comments

[galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com]

It was the weekend. CNN doesn't do news on the weekend. And not much of it during the week.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

i've been following on twitter. very useful on-site blogging.

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

I get my news online via Associated Press, and they've been covering it pretty actively.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

If Khamenei had a hand in rigging the election, he needn't have bothered. He could have simply done to Mousavi what he did to Khatami. This makes me think that Khamenei and his people weren't running this show; they're too smart for that.

[dogemperor.livejournal.com]

One of the bits of speculation I've heard is that this may be an attempt at an autocoup--Ahmadinejad actually doesn't have support from all of the Grand Council, and it's possible he is essentially trying to consolidate all power under himself.

The thing that's REALLY screwing the pooch, IMHO, is how the anti-Mousavi faction is now reportedly using Lebanese Hezbollah as headcrackers; Iranians have been *very* touchy re foreign interference since that stunt we did with the Shah back in the 50s, and Persians tend to consider Arabs in general to be the equivalent of backwoods snake-handlers at best.

And yes, ; wearing green and black today in support.

[janne.livejournal.com]

I remember the US having a curious blind spot for news when I lived there ages ago, but even missing out on Iran, eee. (Seems there's nothing but Iran on the news here, right now. Definitely bringing back faint memories of the first revolution. And playing chopper rescue because that was how interested I was in politics back then!)

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I am completely frakkin' incensed that CNN, et. al., are completely missing it. Hell, Fox talked about it just long enough to complain that Obama's dropping the ball, and then they went back to defending Dick Cheney. The MSM are toast if they can't figure out what they need to do here.

[uniquecrash5.livejournal.com]

I was reading the fark.com threads pretty obsessively for a while to see what was going on; nice that Sullivan is redistributing it all. I like he recent post where he mentions "And I'm doing it on the end of a pier in Cape Cod surrounded by two beagles and a water-pistol (to control Dusty's howling)." heh.

In hopes that geeks who aren't closely following Andrew Sullivan will see it...

[403.livejournal.com]

How to set up a proxy server to help Iranian citizens bypass internet censorship, Windows version (http://blog.austinheap.com/2009/06/15/how-to-setup-a-proxy-for-iran-citizens-for-windows/) & Linux version (http://blog.austinheap.com/2009/06/15/how-to-setup-a-proxy-for-iran-citizens/).

Readers, please note that if you don't know how to make a computer reasonably secure for this use (the instructions suggest running a decent firewall and moving FTP services/access to a nonstandard port), this may not be the best way for you to help.

[llachglin.livejournal.com]

Media coverage has been abysmal. I followed this closely on the blogs you mention and a couple of others, and decided to check out mainstream news Web sites and TV shows on Sunday. There was nothing on TV, and the mainstream Web sites had one story each that mentioned the outcome of the election as a foregone conclusion with Ahmedinejad the winner, and some of them claimed calm in the streets at the same time massive protests were happening around the country.

[dogemperor.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, the news has been full of fail--the most reliable media outlet I've seen (outside of folks like Persiankiwi over on Twitter--fucking Twitter--and fark.com (!) of all places) is BBC America and the shortwave broadcasts of Deutsche Welle. (I'd count Al Jazeera in this too, but we unfortunately don't get it where I live outside of specialised satellite networks. Reportedly they've been VERY good at covering this, though.)

They were right when they said , but I don't think this is quite what they had in mind.

(To be fair, at least some people have speculated that the media isn't covering this in order to prevent the from being turned on as an "American front", and there has been some very specific speculation regarding CNN and Christine Amanapour in particular indicating she may be a de facto hostage. Still, though, the media coverage is full of condensed fail on this--and people wonder why if I watch the news it tends to be BBC America or (to this day) foreign news sites and broadcasts in general; media fucking *sucks* here in the States.)