May 8, 2006

Correcting Wall Street Journal

I've appeared on VOA Persian TV's talk show with Ahmad Baharloo twice and I enjoyed it very much.

But I have no idea who has given this false information about me to the Wall Street Journal's columnist, Mr. Tomlinson whoi's the chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors.

Another program featured the story of Hossein Derakhshan, once jailed in Iran for starting an Internet blog. Upon his release, he managed to get to Canada where he now runs the most popular blog -- in Iran.

Let me correct them:

  1. I've never been jailed in Iran, or anywhere else, so far.
  2. I started my blog when I had already immigrated to Canada.
  3. I don't know if my blog is the most popular blog in Iran, but it's relatively popular and influential.
  4. I was detained, summoned and interrogated by Iran's Information Ministry in June 2005, when i was last in Iran. They made me write and apology to let me leave the country.

This, however, doesn't mean I'm against Baharloo's show. In fact, i find what VOA Persian TV is doing quite helpful and very different from the shallow, simplistic, and simplisticwhat other satellite TV channels are doing on the West coast.

Posted by hoder at May 8, 2006 2:05 AM| TrackBack

Comments
I noticed you had a note about imagining what Ahmadinejad wrote to Bush. I was wondering if you were actually able to find the letter itself. I found it on CNN a while back...the man rambled on for 18 pages. Anyway if you need it, let me know as I can email it to you.
- By: Damona Taef on May 18, 2006
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