Nordic wrote:Twitter. My God.
Did anyone else just recoil in the past few months, before this whole Iranian thing happened, from the way Twitter was being shoved down our throats by the corporate media?
They were promoting Twitter ad nauseum, unlike, really, anything else I've ever seen.
Right then I distrusted Twitter. Plus the whole name of it, and "tweets" for describing something that anyone would try to communicate. A "tweet"? That's almost as bad as a "diary" over at Dailykos. Okay, it's worse.
And now we're being told that Twitter is the hero of the revolution, blah blah blah, the world would not know the truth if it weren't for this fucking thing called TWITTER.
I wanted to write about it, and now I wish I had because I would look very prescient. But at the time it was just a suspicion, just that intuition of mine telling me "this is being shoved down our throats and promoted for a reason".
Furthermore, we know, because we've been told over and over again during the last eight years or so, that the CIA has been clandestinely inside Iran pushing for a "Democratic" revolution, trying to ramp up the restlessness with the young, hoping that they will overthrow the conservative Ayatollahs.
So all of this most certainly could be a CIA-backed, orchestrated, fueled event.
Not that that wouldn't make it "real" because the young people there have plenty to be rebel against, i.e. old guys with beards and robes telling them how to live their lives in the era of the Internet.
I was listening to BBC radio the other night and they played several seconds of audio that was anonymously posted on Twitter -- people yelling and screaming -- supposedly to illustrate either the protests or something horrific happening in Iran. At any rate, what jumped out at me (because I know audio very well, having done a lot of audio recording, engineering, and mastering for several decades now) was the quality of the recording. It sounded like it was right out of a movie sound stage, complete with big Neumann microphones and the like. And the people sounded like bad actors. The main point is that it had to have been recorded professionally -- not something from a cell phone, laptop, web cam, or even a mini-disc recorder, which at least would have sounded more believable. FWIW.
