Life is a State of Mind » democracy http://blog.scottnolan.org ideas, thoughts, rants Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:14:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Complete failure of the mainstream media http://blog.scottnolan.org/2009/06/14/complete-failure-of-the-mainstream-media/ http://blog.scottnolan.org/2009/06/14/complete-failure-of-the-mainstream-media/#comments Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:59:33 +0000 snolan http://blog.scottnolan.org/?p=1472 So Iran’s election appears to be rigged. It looks like Mousavi won by a very large margin, and that Ahmadinejad came in a very distant third place (eg: only 5.69 million votes to over 19 million for Mousavi and well over 13 million for Karoubi); and that despite the obviously clear to the public victory for Mousavi, the military theocracy declared Ahmadinejad the winner without even bothering to count most of the votes. Furthermore, they audaciously proclaimed the alleged Ahmadinejad victory to be a mandate of nearly 2/3 of all votes; something that was so clearly wrong that Tehran and many other cities in Iran are in open rebellion now.

The mainstream media fail is that over 36 hours later, only the BBC has any real coverage of the revolution happening in Iran. You have to get this information from bloggers and twitterers if you want it. Guess the revolution is not being televised after all.

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    “I will open the doors to government and ask you to be involved in your own democracy again.”

If you have not seen his ~28 minute spot yet, you should. Even if you don’t plan to vote for Obama, the spot points out the things our government should be focusing on. McCain, Bush, Clinton, and we all could learn a lot from Barack Obama’s ad and we should all take greater part in our own democracy.

For those who are not flash video enabled:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtREqAmLsoA

Update: Getting involved can positively effect your own life.

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