- some kind of protest or demonstration in Israel
- Condoleeza Rice
- the late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khomeini
- current Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei
- something about the U.S.
- something else about the U.S.
- "Film" - an entertainment paper?
- two English-language dailies
- what did Mottaki (Iranian foreign minister) and Rice tell each other? - ebright
- (meeting with) Pope in the Vatican - ebright
- "Money" newspaper: gas will be raised to 100 tomans (10cents) per liter from khordad (June) - ebright
- unfinished dinner in Sharm-ol-Sheikh ( news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6627557.stm ) - ebright
- Iranian and American diplomats meet (met?) - ebright
- sports newspapers - ebright
- workers newspaper (sounds communist, but is not) - ebright
newspapers (Tehrān)
Our Iranian-American guide told us that even though each newspaper is essentially the mouthpiece of a political party, and despite some government censorship, there is still a far broader range of opinions to be found in Iranian newspapers than there is in the mainstream newspapers in the US (because there are far more viable parties than in our two-party system).
Interesting, n'est-ce pas?
Comments and faves
monika & manfred added this photo to their favorites. (61 months ago)
monika & manfred (61 months ago | reply)
Somehow it was clear I had to fave this one, too...
You are really good in telling stories in pictures...
rogiro (61 months ago | reply)
Interesting indeed! I always love newspapers, as you know, but this is a great shot. Did you buy the English-language newspapers or one of the others?
Pug! (61 months ago | reply)
a little bit scary!
birdfarm (61 months ago | reply)
I'm sorry that right now I don't have time to respond to all your wonderful comments - I'm rushing to leave for Chicago and may not have internet access again til Sunday.
Please don't think I'm not grateful - please believe me that I ***LOVE*** getting your comments!!! LOVE IT!!!! :-) I promise to respond properly when I return! :-)
jprfamily (61 months ago | reply)
what's scary ? ... I think it's great to have varied newspapers and while non-dictatorships may have more "Move-On.org" type websites and blogs etc that are directly counter the current chief of state, gov, etc & legal, I don't know many nations no matter how free that have much MAIN STREAM media that isn't fairly homogenized.
Local papers may be less so but NYTimes & USA TODAY, NBC, CNN, etc reappear most everywhere in USA. Neue Zurcher Zeitung, Le Monde, London Times reappear in quasi duplicates all across their continent.
I'm also interested in knowing if you can read Farsi or if the guide explained the texts? Photos you could recognize w/o reading captions. But did you learn the script for "USA" for instance which you highlight as well as pics?
What startles me is TWO English language DAILIES.
birdfarm (61 months ago | reply)
Monika, thank you for your kind words and all your fave-ing! :-) You are too kind to me and my pix!
Rogiro, I didn't buy any at this newsstand (I bought water!) but we received free newspapers on the plane (Day Three, coming soon!) - one of the regular dailies in Persian was on our seat when we boarded (a hardliner paper with a big headline about the U.S., that I haven't gotten translated); then, as they figured out they had foreigners on the flight, they brought all of us a copy of one of the English language dailies - so hospitable as always. :-)
Pug, what's scary? Just curious...
Mom, please be nice to Pug, she's wonderful! And yes I can read the Persian, although I don't know enough of the language to understand 99% of it - that's why I can only pick out things like names of countries.
Pug! (61 months ago | reply)
heh, oops, i shoud have made myself clearer - i meant that the homogeneity of the media in a "free-speech" country like the US is scary....!
birdfarm (61 months ago | reply)
Heh, yeah, Pug, I figured it must be something like that. :-) :-) And I agree!
birdfarm (61 months ago | reply)
Ebright, thank you for your added notes! Very interesting!!
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Ari Herzog (38 months ago | reply)
Thanks for the pic, which I attributed you atariwriter.com/2009/05/are-100-newspapers-wron g/
greenbird_ontree (33 months ago | reply)
Thanks for the pic. Used it in my blog: newsofthefuture.net/index.php?/archives/60-Wh y-newspapers...
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ovidiusoft (25 months ago | reply)
I used this photo here:
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Thanks a lot and keep up the good work!
Ovidiu
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syymza (10 months ago | reply)
Hi I would like to use your image as a default image for my news category. Do you allow me?
birdfarm (10 months ago | reply)
No problem syymza :)
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jalbaiges (7 months ago | reply)
I used it on a presentation about 2.0 activism for nonprofit organizations. Thank you!