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| Understanding Iran as a journalist
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Location: Blogs Live Blog! Iran 360˚: Exploring Politics, Economics and Society in a Global Hot SpotLive Blog! Iran 360˚: Exploring Politics, Economics and Society in a Global Hot Spot |
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| Posted by: ICFJ Staff |
4/5/2008 7:25 AM |
Omid is an Iranian journalist and blogger who leaves and studies in the US. He has interviewed many US journalists who have covered Iran.
Here is a list of some of their problems...
Omid is an Iranian journalist and blogger who leaves and studies in the US. He has interviewed many US journalists who have covered Iran.
Here is a list of some of their problems.
- Problem of access
- Journalists travel to Iran for short periods of time.
- they are limited to Tehran.
- They just go during the elections.
But there are journalists who have travelled to Iran on several occasions and have good understanding of the country.
Some other points:
- Iranians love to be interviewed by foreign journalists.
- 80% of stories by foreign correspondent from Tehran refer to similar facts such as women wearing veils, lavish parties in northern Tehran.
- The agenda of Western media when it comes to Iran does not show the realities on the ground.
- Traditional bias: Women's veil, mollahs, ....
- Modern bias: After two years from Ahmadinejad, Western media are still obssessed with the reformist and only talk to them. The real Iran is absent from US media.
- If you speak with Iranian ex-patriots in the US, double check the information with some one from inside the country.
- Rely on the numbers published by the Iranian government.
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