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Javaneh, that's what I figured.I had looked all over for the

the blogger before posting this and after I got your comment, but I couldn't find it so I left the space blank. i had been brought to the site through google a number of times in the past weeks (and before, when googling about the Iranian labor movement), but I did not realize it was an IRANIAN communist party site til today. Only in the posting of the item I saw in the URL that it was Shooresh. It's a shame because I would've been using it as a much more major source if I had. The whole time I was surprised that a Communist site would be so interested in a non-Marxist movement in Iran. Maybe I should've put two and two together but I didn't. I guess because, for that very reason, I did not think they could be SUCH an important source-until today. I had not put two and two together, otherwise I would've know him by now.

I have been checking NIAC and Huffington post every day as the two major funneling sources for the daily events (along with other places for other reasons). I got very disappointed in huffpost when they never issued an explanation about their coverage of Taraneh Moussavi, then last week they published another full article focusing on her (and another very unsubstantiated case). I stopped trusting them so much, unfortunately. Also their coverage has thinned ouot. So I am going to use Revolutionary Road along with NIAC as my main daily funneling source.

It is an excellent publicaton and the labor coverage below this blog item is awesome. It is something I am very interested in so that's another reason to go there regularly. I did not want to draw attention to it at this time with the trial going on, but I was hopng some people would notice it anyway.

I haven't twittered or anything like that. I am not ready for that. And I didn't want to get overloaded. I am still learning how to research and evaluate and make my own critical judgments about regular news in general. I can't get overloaded like that. One of these days.

(I also assumed Huffington Post would be doing the proper coverage, sifting through, and evaluation of the tweets for me...sigh...).

Rosie

Saeed Valadbaaygi is a political activist, a young guy from Kermanshah. He runs the Revolutionary rd blog and is pretty well known internationally for his coverage of the events since the election and even before that.

He takes many risks making to ensure the latest news, video's, etc get out of Iran.

He's also on twitter and fb.

Javaneh

Actually Fozolie explained it below, they're from Fars

News. But who is Saeed?

Rosie

Saeed is part of a large opposition group in Iran. The group has many contacts. I guess that's how.

Javaneh

Well acutally..the headline was: Abtahi 'disputes' vote

fraud claim. You knew I meant Abtahi, I'm sure, and I think you got the rest. But I should've checked it.

Now, some of it operates subliminally. For instance, I didn't notice til now that the way it's phrased, it actually has the two words "DISPUTES VOTE' together. Maybe you notice it consciously, maybe you don't, but somewhere subconsciously these things do register. Of course commercial advertisers know this very well, and interestingly one of the words in Spanish for a commercial advertisement is una "propaganda".

You do see it in the Western press, but it's nothing like this. And I just find it amazing. It's quite an education.

Some people here just trash Press TV but the fact is it's a complex organization, and the other thing is that if you do the count, the Reform movement took off ten years ago, so a lot of these reporters probably joined the agency then.

There was the case of the team that got chased away from the protest in London, but what people also don't realize is that it would be the London office which CHOSE to cover it, because I'm sure they didn't do it on orders of IRI Regime. And they probably figured, well, if it gets in for ten minutes before it's deleted (which I've seen happen), at least it got in. And if it doesn't, the very fact of sending it in is a symbolic protest.

Not to say the demonstrators shouldn't've driven them away, because that was THEIR symbolic protest, and I'm SURE the journalists understood that. But...

and so it's all complex. As your dad knew. It's complex. The importance of 'infiltration' within the system should never be undervalued. Or the people who do it, sometimes at great risk..

Bottom line is: IRI OFFICIAL PRESS (as opposed to semi-official) and censors are not that bright. The news items read SO stupidly (in English where I read them) and NO foreigner would believe them, and they don't seem to realize this. And they're the ones who f-ed up the translation about Israel and the pages of time. Their translations are generally HORRENDOUS. They have no really skilled translators or editors (maybe no really highly educated people will work with them..) Ahmadinejaad's simultaneous translators in English are awful. And so on..  Mehr News is THE WORST.

And so...these journalists are a hell of a lot smarter than the official authorities' people. And they know it, and boy, do they work it.

:-)

Fooling Censors 101

First thing you must learn as an Iranian journalist. My father used to tell me stories about that, wish he had written them down for posterity.

Mr. Fozolie

Oh, I see, they're from Fars News. But Press TV

is fighting tooth and nail. They managed to stall for about a half day before putting up Jannati's declaration. Today if you look at the title it says Hatabi 'disputes' election results in QUOTES. And then goes on to say he says it was a "lie".In quotes. In fact, in reporting such statements, journalists DON'T put one word in quotes. And people know this, whether consciously or subconsciously, so they will register the SECOND and usual meaning of quotations marks around one word, which is that it is suspected as spurious.

Now notice how they refer to the charged people as "Opposition activists and protesters". Activist is actually a very favorable term in English. It means 'political activist' which is usually someone who fights for fairness in some way. Putting it with "Opposition" specifically implies there is a real CAUSE. There are SO many other ways they could've put this

They do things like this all the time. I explained it here:

//iranian.com/main/comment/reply/74915/201191

These people really deserve to be acknowledged. They do the best they can.

Pars News Under Akhoond Occupation

Dear Roshan

here:

//www.farsnews.net/imgrep.php?nn=8805100441

That is why Mr. Fozolie calls it "Show Trials". Another blogger raged earlier in the News Section about Fars's reports being lies. I think we should call them for what they are. We owe it to Iranians inside to make sure the world recognizes this Akhoond show for what it is.

Mr. Fozolie