Wednesday, April 14, 2010

iranian election - WN.COM advanced search

iranian election - WN.COM advanced search

This Following pages has quite a few video clips concerning the Iranian election. It looks to compare the various ways differing networks around the one gave coverage to the recent election.Contrary to an article I've previously posted it agrees with most things westerners have been exposed to, that the election was tampered with. This clips exposes how dispite the clear rules of equal coverage oppertunity not all the candidates recieved equally coverage. The extra attention given to the incumbent was very evident. While the previous article I posted said that polls take days before the election put the incumbent ahead with a large market this video clips gives audiences a glimpse in how that statement may be true, yet fraudently. Polls may have put the incumbent ahead by a large margin yet such polls, newspapers, and television channels are easily controlled by the government. The polls could have been tampered with to give the incumbent a basis to support himself when his victory was known. If the election was tampered with I am sure the persons involved would have fabricated more information to attempt to legitimize the final results. However, Bush was not the popular canidate in 2000 yet still was victorious and like the clip mentions the President of Iran is not the highest power like in the U.S it is the Clergy man who heads the nuclear program and such. Thus, we ought to be tracking his current doings along with the President.

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  1. Also, I forgot to mention that this clip reinterates how important facebook, the internet in general and text messaging was to the past election.

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