Rachel Maddow : ‘Professional Journalism is all but Completely Extinguished in Iran Now”

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On the same day that Christiane Amanpour referred to the Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and Flickr updates from Iran as “speculation,” “guesswork,” and “patchwork,” Rachel Maddow talks about the state of journalism in Iran. In particular, Maddow addresses the lack of official legitimate sources of information in Iran and the Iranian government’s propaganda ploys at trying to pin the turmoil on the streets of Iran on Western media agencies like the BBC and Voice of America:

“In this vacuum of independently verified information, the government is presenting its own version of reality to its citizens…Remarkably today, Iranian state television suggested that this footage of this young woman [Neda Agah Soltan] dying in the street was staged.”

“We were provoked by networks like the BBC and the Voice of America to take such immoral actions.”

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