Nope, Iran’s not important today

by clayboy on June 26, 2009 · 3 comments

in Media

On the BBC News front page 24 hours ago you were still in no doubt that Iran was a matter of tremendous global import, and, indeed, the world’s first Twitter revolution. Today … well see for yourself below. I guess, a 140 character tweet limit is about appropriate for a 140 second attention span. News? Well, that’s entertainment.

You know it’s bad, it’s bad – you know it
(bad, bad –really, really bad)

Oh, did somebody say something like that already?

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Theophrastus June 27, 2009 at 00:08

I looked at the page (from a US IP address) just now (updated 22:56 GMT — 50 minutes after your snapshot.).

True, MJ is still the number one story, but Iran holds the number two news position:

Obama praise for Iran’s Mousavi: Iran’s opposition candidate captured the imagination of groups who want to open up to the world, the US president says.

However, there is still no mention of Ali Akbar Khan, who also died yesterday, on the front page.

Theophrastus June 27, 2009 at 00:10

Oops, Khan died Thursday — LAST WEEK.

jim June 27, 2009 at 02:04

careful doug, some will accuse you of lacking compassion.

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