Meanwhile, the media in the UK—and the USA—are TOTALLY IGNORING the ongoing revolutionary turmoil in Iran, with running street battles, a general strike, dozens of cities in open rebellion against the IRG and government forces, NOTAMS warning aircraft away from areas where there's ongoing gunfire, Kurdish militias crossing the border to tackle the Revolutionary Guard …
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@cstross not entirely true. But yes, in a burning world, #news orgs are choosing what sells most #outrage first.
https://www.channel4.com/news/internet-blackout-in-iran-as-protests-enter-12th-day
@cstross Not true. Heard it reported on the BBC.
@cstross thank you for posting this. I had been thinking that they had to be in the midst of (another) revolution.
@cstross
This ignorance gives me "Shhh, quiet. Don't give our Plebs ideas…" vibes.
@cstross are they? It's the main story on the front page just now.
@robparsons @cstross they've had a couple of different articles on it over the past two weeks, depending on how it's been ebbing and flowing, as well as the general newsroom focus has changed.
I don't think they've exactly been suppressing it, I think that just not everything can be front page all the time, and people think if it's not front page it's not covered.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cjnwl8q4ggwt shows they've been covering this since day 3 - 14 stories and a live page. Nearly an article a day.
@kline @robparsons I should add that I ignore the BBC. They're biased as fuck in support of London government policies (right wing by default, anti-Scottish independence, anti-rejoin-the-EU, anti-Palestine) ... basically on the wrong side of history the whole way, and it's infected the newsroom, too.
@cstross Wouldn't the protestors be sponsored by foreign states such as the US, UK and of course Israel?
@willie1foot How many millions of protesters do you think the UK or US could afford? Especially paying them enough to stand up in front of machine-gun fire, which is where things have gotten to at this point?
It's basically in a rolling pre-revolutionary boil right now.
@cstross
Is there
1) a reliable source or two of plain news about there;
2) anything we - State or otherwise - could plausbl6 do to 8mprove the outcome?
(For improvement meaning fewer deaths, more aggregate happiness, less gods)
@cstross They don't do real reporting, just what comes through on Twitter. All any government needs to do to avoid scrutiny is DM Musk and ask him for coverage to go away.
@cstross I do wonder if US or Israel helped spark it or are somehow directing it
@synlogic4242 It's been brewing for a very long time indeed. The US and Israel certainly *think* they'd like to see regime change in Iran (but I suspect what they will get is very much not what they want and they'll have epic buyer's remorse afterwards).
@cstross they already won this one... Soon US we'll go for the beautiful oil or whatever resources they want
@cstross that's some escalation from the last BBC WS Radio reports on protests i heard!
(I did question how peaceful the protests were if two armed state thugs were among the dead.)
@cstross And the Epstein Files.
@cstross
And weren’t they running out of water? Desperate times?!
@Pinchy63 The Tehran water shortage isn't a short-term thing, it's a mixture of climate change and population density. They're talking about moving the capital to another city, which would help in the longer term.
@cstross
Yes I’ve been reading about it then all reporting stopped. I can’t imagine having no access to water.
@Pinchy63 I think they've got more immediate concerns (like, the water is a threat over the next several years: the regime collapsing is a problem RIGHT NOW)
@Pinchy63 @OliviaVespera "Trump says Ayatollah to flee country". While I don't think it's impossible that Iran is experiencing a bit of turmoil right now, if Trump told me I had four fingers and a thumb on my right hand I'd stop to count them, twice, just to be sure.
