TUNIS, TUNISIA -- As the new year began, social media and corporate-owned news organizations alike were giving the protests in Iran constant coverage, despite the fact that the protests were relatively small in size and motivated primarily by economics -- not politics, as many popular news outlets had claimed. Not surprisingly, these same
The Media’s Wildly Different Take on Unrest in Tunisia and Iran
By all accounts, the protests in Tunisia are everything that the U.S. political establishment had wished the protests in Iran would become. Yet, the media silence regarding the protests in Tunisia has been deafening.