Iran's protests are powerful and real. Why are mainstream media outlets so hesitant to report on them?Fox News, Dec 30, 2017, Stephen L. Miller
For all the squabbling that social media platforms are notorious for, their relevance to the media landscape plays an important role in times of protest.
This was evident with Black Lives Matter, among other movements. It’s been evident for the past three days in Iran, where thousands have taken to streets and public squares calling for an end to the hardline conservative regime of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The question that needs to be asked right now is why traditional mainstream media outlets – grandstanding over their importance in this new, bold era of fact-checking and truth-telling – have largely ignored a blossoming revolution.
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.
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