Jun
17th
17th
If we should be able to criticize Ayatollah Ali Khamenei without fear of being shot, so, too, should we be able to scrutinize Twitter.
Jack Shafer tries to put Twitter’s power in the Iranian demonstrations into perspective. [slate] (This is not to say that there are better options or that the information isn’t fascinating, but one has to worry that this is kind of like getting all news of a war from a few committed embedded soldiers; see also [businessweek])
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