February 19, 2004
Bloggers will be reporters tomorrow in Iran
I'm trying to encourage Iranian blogger to go out tomorrow, the election day, and report what they see and hear in their city and blog it. I also plan to gather all posts related to it in one place either in my own Persian blog or in Sobhaneh, the collective news blog.
I also consider a place in iranFilter for those Iranian who know English to provide translations the reports that are gathered in Persian.
This can be the 9/11 for Persian blogosphere. It's the first event that potentially engages every body in every city in Iran and blogs can play a huge role in reporting the news, rumors, and all those things that traditional journalists usually miss.
Iranian bloggers do not vote tomorrow, but the blog.
Update:
- A special page on iranFilter is now set up and it's ready for Persian bloggers' covereage on the election day. Please help us by translating whatever you find interesting in Persian sources into English.
Posted by hoder at February 19, 2004 2:16 PM
i don't understand your reasoning...why did you encourage the bloggers not to vote?
peace in chaos,
chas
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I haven't seen any blog reporting on all the bloody demonstrations and violence that has ensued due to the elections. Why is that? There seems to be a lot happening that no one is caring to notice... See http://www.daneshjoo.org/smccdinews/article/publish/article_4116.shtml
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Dear Hoder,
Thanks for helping to get the truth out.
Actually, the whole struggle was like a fixed fight or one of those fake TV wrestling matches - the conclusion was known from the start, and Khatami would never be allowed to carry out real reform even if he wanted to. He is part of the system - part of the problem. It was just one set of bad guys arguing with a different set of bad guys.
The Iranian people have been taking wooden nickels from their leaders for far too long. Time to wake up.
I have posted links to your site (and iranfilter and others) plus views about the dismal election fiasco in Iran at Iran Elections: the end of Free - for now.
Ami Isseroff
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My CMS dosen´t have Trackback, but I have linked you.
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i am sorry for typing iran as irac in trackback message.
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This is really a great idea. We are doing the same for Iraqi: it works! http://www.ruleta.nazory.cz/ could be an exemple to keep news going on the web.Than we can send links, translations, etcetera...to the media. We got the target to have support on one of the most important italian newspaper IL FOGLIO.You can check what has been printed on
http://www.ilfoglio.it/camillo/.
Good luck. Have for sure I'll support freedom in Iran too.
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As an American who loves Iran, I sincerely appreciate your blogs as they are the only reliable and honest sources of information about your country. I wish you all the best tomorrow during your election and its aftermath.
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Iraqi and Iranian bloggers are the only real reporters able to let the rest of us know what is going on. Thank you for doing this.
Most of our Western reporters seem to enjoy staying in hotels talking to one another. They seem to report on what they think should have happened; based on what I don't know. At least that's the way their news reports appear to me.
So please let us all know. I am very interested in all the reports from the Iraqi (and Iraninan) bloggers.
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