New tweets, old needs - NYTimes.com
LOS ANGELES — Two mullahs gaze out on a crowd of protesters in Tehran. The one says, “Arrest the correspondents.” To which the despondent reply is: “But they’re all correspondents!”
This story, recounted by Mahasti Afshar, an Iranian-American scholar, during a debate at the University of Southern California, captures the post-election coming-of-age of new social media like Twitter that have provided critical information and images on the post-electoral upheaval even as the authorities have driven out mainstream networks and newspapers...
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