News & Current Events from Iran's perspective

[Tock]

http://www.presstv.ir/default.aspx

Above is the link to Iran's official news, written in English. How much of it is propaganda, and how much of it accurately represents reality, I don't know, but I'd venture a guess that it's not that much different than US news outlets.

US news outlets are mostly owned by giant multi-national corporations, obligated to make a profit for their shareholders, and undoubtedly report the news in a way that will entertain viewers and not offend the owners or upper management, and not rile US government regulators. They are not above taking US government $$$ to broadcast and print outright propaganda

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/wa...er&oref=slogin



Iranian news outlets are undoubtedly propaganda outlets since they are owned by the government. Nevertheless, they make interesting reading/viewing, because sometimes they report things the US outlets won't mention (for whatever reasons), and provide a different viewpoint on current events.

So, just like any news source, take what they say with a grain of salt . . .

[Panzerfaust]

I think you would be surprised how much more BS American news outlets spew than other countries. All gov't use propoganda, they need it. You cannot have good gov't without good propoganda.

[shrpskn]

The media broadcast only the ruling party's information. This can be done through state-run media. Remember, in times of conflict all for-profit media repeats the ruling party's information. Therefore all for-profit media becomes state-run.

[gixxerboy1]

The media broadcast only the ruling party's information. This can be done through state-run media. Remember, in times of conflict all for-profit media repeats the ruling party's information. Therefore all for-profit media becomes state-run.

Exactly. We have plenty of propeganda in the US