Regarding the protests. I was also wondering if there is a bias towards the Iranian student movement in the western news media? For instance an AP dispatch in USA Today goes like this:
" TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An estimated 100 students staged a rare demonstration Monday against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calling him a "dictator,"...."
BBC though puts the number this way: "There were scuffles as hundreds of supporters and opponents of the president gathered outside the venue...." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7033634.stm
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Our Salutation to those who stand for Freedom in Iran.
درود بر دانشجویان دلیر ایرانی.
زنده باد ایران و ایرانی
Looks like more than 100.
Those who have been arrested in the past, are replaced by others.
I wish I didn't feel so helpless.
Regarding the protests. I was also wondering if there is a bias towards the Iranian student movement in the western news media? For instance an AP dispatch in USA Today goes like this:
" TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An estimated 100 students staged a rare demonstration Monday against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calling him a "dictator,"...."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-10-08-iran-students_N.htm?csp=34
or the same release on Yahoo News:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071008/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_protest_1
A photo from an Iranian blog obviously shows many hundreds more than the one hundred reported by Associated Press:
http://azarmehr.blogspot.com/2007/10/ahmadi-nejad-at-tehran-university.html
BBC though puts the number this way: "There were scuffles as hundreds of supporters and opponents of the president gathered outside the venue...."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7033634.stm
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