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In a 1993 piece reviewing the post revolutionary Iranian press inside and outside Iran, I mentioned two shortcomings of the Iranian media abroad. First, they did not respond to the needs and concerns of second generation Iranians. They were too focused on the needs and concerns of the first generation of immigrants and on political issues in their homeland. This was particularly true of the printed media. Second, most of Iranian newspapers, radio and TV stations were run as family businesses in a one-man show style. Both these problems seem to continue today, though to a lesser degree and in a different form.

Notes

1. See Ali Akbar Mahdi, “Ethnic Identity among Second-Generation Iranians in the United States,” Iranian Studies, Volume 31, Number 1, winter 1998.

2. See Ali Akbar Mahdi, “Sociological Characteristics of the Post-Revolutionary Iranian Press,” Fasl-e Ketab (A Persian Book Review Quarterly), Nos. 12-13, winter & spring 1993, London, U.K.

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Ali Akbar Mahdi is chair and professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ohio Wesleyan University. Homepage here.

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