Interview · moment 9 of 28
Iran's Revolution Ignored by American Media
from Louis CK | The Tim Dillon Show #317 · #317
5 min
Guest
Tim and Louis discuss how Iran's ongoing freedom protests and killings by the morality police get almost no American media coverage compared to trivial celebrity stories, contrasting it with the heavy coverage given to Russia/Ukraine.
- Iran is a central problem to American history, yet there's a revolution happening there with freedom fighters being mowed down that American media ignores.
- The US has interfered with Iran for years; Iran's only consistent demand has been that America leave them alone.
- The Iranian uprising isn't on CNN.com—instead the homepage features celebrity gossip like how Lindsay Wagner looks now.
- Politico sells banner ad space above its articles to post "the woman from Crocodile Dundee is disgusting now" as clickbait.
- The Iran situation blows up on Instagram because people in LA have relatives there, but mainstream media won't amplify it.
- A woman was killed by Iran's morality police, but the progressive left doesn't want to criticize them because they've been wronged by US intervention.
- Putin makes an ideal Hollywood villain—a white heterosexual man—while Iranian mullahs are harder to demonize because they're people of color we've historically wronged.
- The media should at least mention major international news if they're going to run a news website, even if there's nothing ordinary people can do about it.
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