REALITY CHECK

@ Behnood

Awsome analysis in two seconds.You are funny.I complain about the quality of our media but keep on watching and listening.I derserve it :-)

KIRN must still answer on a lot of issues

Not only the John Farrahi issue. They have been and continue to run ads by some character called Karim. He made the movie David and Fatima about an Israeli boy and a Palestenian girl who fell in love and the usual sordid tale that follows. This person has been running ads on KIRN using the green movement to promote his film. His ads address the youth of Iran and greens directly while he claims to hear their cries for freedom and promises to attain that freedom for them! How exactly a 3rd rate movie maker is going to do that he fails to explain. To push his movie he then would continue to call on Iranians to introduce themselves as 'Davood' and 'Fatemeh' in objection to distatorship!KIRN's response to this too, is that it is 'paid advertising'.

I know a large group of my friends and associates were outraged by this blatantly opportunistic move. Many have called the station to complain and all have been told that this is a 'paid advertisement' and that they don't control the content. That is nothing short of a cop out in my opinion.  The interesting twist to this was that apparently another group, made up largely of Iranian jews were angry with him because he was promoting inter-faith love and marriage. So much for mutual tolerance and getting our priorities right I guess.

Now the latest is that KIRN is airing 'professional hour' shows by none other than the good Dr Kamrava, you know the OctoMom infertility doctor. I'm sure this too is 'paid advertising' and KIRN 'has no control on the content'. 

Lots of media integrity there eh? It seems to me money and personal interest is a much stronger factor than religion or background or social responsibility.

John Farahi is your Advisor or Hero if…

If Hakhaa was your Hero even for a second.

 If you think Eslame Shams is a comedian, Jalale Hemati is a singer, and Celine
is a dancer

If your source of news is Parviz Nazerian

 If you read or study less than a second in a year

If you knew John Farahi was a casino partner but still trusted him.

Last but not least, if you take ink, voice, and picture as content of media and thus take Persian Media in Los Angeles seriously

KIRN must still answer and "we didnt know" wont do it!

KIRN Still has to answer Iranian community how it allowed Farahi run their show while it was abvious to so many (including me after meeting him and his wife in two sessions) that unlike what he claimed on Radio, he did not have the best of Iranian community in mind but how can milk them at any cost using the microphone that was provided to him.

This is irrelevant of his religion or background.

Not so fast

I totally agree with how these kinds of examples can re-generate racist feelings in the society. People who have the tendency to be racist, may only reqiuire a couple of examples to damn another race or ethnicity.

HOWEVER, let's not forget that con artists like "Mr. Persian Madoff" was wholey sanctioned by the rabbis of a certain Jewish Temple - likley because of his donations- as a man of God. Let's not forget, that  more likely than not, the whole religious apparatus lines up with these kind of people.

I disagree, therefore , on the last point of Fariba. These religions and tranditions try to buy themselves credit by sweeping their dirt under the rug.

شما راست میگی بخدا

این چیزها هیچ ربطی به مذهب و مرام آدم نداره. من خودم یک مبلغی پول بی زبان را دادم دست یک مسلمان خداشناس. یارو انگار جد اندر جدش یهودی بوده. پول ما رو خورد و یک آب هم کرد روش.

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The Pahlavis, all mullahs, and all public figures associated with the Green Movement  must disclose the source and the amount of their wealth/income.

Not unique to any religion

Fariba Jaan,

I have not heard anything about Farahi being Jewish.  May be in LA there are more discussions on this, but here in Orange County, it is just about John Farahi and how no one can be trusted anymore.

I don't think these kinds of things are relevant on one religion or another or one nationality or the other.  But agree with you that at times we generalize too much. 

We are also good at creating Heroes and then drop them to the ground.  Until a month ago, John Farahi could do no wrong, everyone who followed finance, loved him, and then this happens and he is called all kinds of name.

This is not limited to John Farahi; We do the same thing with our national heroes from the late Shah, Mossadegh, Bakhtiar, Khomeini, and Bazargan to most recent personalities such as Shireen Ebadi,Akbar Gangi,  Mohammad Khatami, Karroubi, and Mir Hossein Mousavi. Each of these people at some point were our national heroes and then bam, one mistake or change in their lives, they would become such scum bags that we have ever met or hear about.

And the victims...

Interstingly enough, the victims of both Madoff and Farahi were (are) mostly Jews.  In case of Farahi, I heard from my Jewish friends that the ones who went to authorities and complained were his Iranian Jewish clients.  So, I don't think that they are trying to sweep things under the carpet.

Thank you

Thank you for pointing out our community's obvious bias against minorities, Jews in particular. Too often we put down ethnic and religious minorities. And then when Iranians or Muslims are disparaged in the media we are outraged and cry discrimination. Look in the mirror.