Archive for June, 2009
So much news
Sometimes I think there aren’t enough hours in the day for me to read through and digest all the news I want, in the way I want, which is to be able to step away from the computer and be able to speak knowledgeably for 3-5 minutes on the subject in question. There’s just too much news. Too many positions on each new story, too many new stories in each new section.
And sometimes it just gets to be too hard to handle, like this eyewitness account of violence in Tehran, which just makes me shudder, and feel a little vomity, and be grateful that I live in a country where the most outrage over an election (see Bush victory 2004) mounts to is scathing blog posts and late-night television satire. But, I suppose the Iranians had more to lose, or… more to gain had their guy won.
The problem with the Iranian election coverage is that I can’t suss out the correct story since there’s nothing even resembling unbiased media in the country right now. Foreign journalists have been asked to leave, at least partly for their own safety, so those of us not in Iran are relying on reports from their state-run media and then from various Twitter accounts, some of which have started accusing each other of being Basijis or secret Israeli spies.
The pictures, though… they seem real enough, and as I look at them, I can only pray that things work out for the best in Iran in the end, insha’Allah.