Thursday, June 18, 2009

Tehran, Iran cultural reporting beatdowns mainstream journalists

Reporters ban from Tehran, Iran uprising impacts the way the news is reported. This should not come as a surprise to mainstream media. Often mainstream media found themselves at odds with African-Americans community. Bias was cited as a reason for rejecting news coverage by mainstream journalists. Journalists who had no ideal how to put a voice to what was happening within the African-American community.

One such reason issue, Hurricane Katrina was seen as mocking African-Americans. Outraged was directed at the the insensitive way in which reporters including former President George Bush at the crisis impacting African-Americans. So, it comes as no surprise that Iranian turned their noses up at mainstreams journalists attempt at reporting what was going on after the Iranian election.

A cultural barrier would prevent mainstream journalist from giving a full ellipse of the erupting of civil up rest in Tehran. New media owned by raced white males and not inclusive of the different voices of America, would find themselves having to reach out to those who fully understood the culture of Iranian beyond a soundbite. A soundbite was not what Iran-American wanted. Media outlets found themselves having to search for these voices on social media such as blogs, facebook, and the limited character twitter.

These voices on facebook was determining what was being reported and when. Mainstream journalists were dependent on these folks to broadcast their nightly news. Not only was their a revolt in Tehran, Iran. There was a revolt against the way mainstream media would give their voices to what was occurring during prime time news Instead those mostly impacted by the disturbance provided viewers with reliable content with clarity based on culture rather than privilege.

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