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 where can I find more reporting on this? AP just seems to be covering the protest activity
@cstross
I did wonder. It's quite a big thing to ignore.
@cstross yeah but it's not Trump is it? Of course they're going to ignore it because Trump sells papers.
@cstross odd enough, the BBC to be the most exhaustive source I managed to find online
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgm4y0ewe93o
@cstross
Trump’s been threatening to bomb Iran if they kill any protestors, meanwhile he’s all in favor of ICE killing protestors, or people caught in the wrong place.
@cstross Holy shit, lot of my coworkers are Persian and Kurdish, I should ask if their families are okay
@cstross I mean, I read about it on the Guardian and BBC websites today. So I'm not sure the UK media is ignoring it.
Edit: link to BBC coverage
@Haikyoneko It's been brewing for weeks. They've only just begun covering it as front page material today.
@cstross they have been covering it though. In the guardian it's the 3rd story on the website.
That's definitely not totally ignoring it, in the UK at least.
@cstross thanks for letting me know; I am reading about the Iran excitement now.
@cstross Al-Jazeera Arabic doesn't have a lot more. They seem mostly interested in Syria right now. Iran and Qatar seem to have been getting along relatively well so that may not be the cause.
Maybe that's a good thing. USA should not stick its nose in Iran now, especially under current management.
@cstross It’s true - I’ve gotten better info about this from my barber than from the media.
@cstross Considering the usual terrible consequences of us paying attention to others’ struggles, maybe not being hyped up the news is a good thing.
May people stay safe while uninstalling the regime.
@cstross That sounds really hopeful for the people. I hope whoever wins is best for the people.
@cstross The US is dealing with their Gestapo murdering citizens and mad president threatening other countries. People have only so much capacity.
@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.
