Iran Launches English Satellite Channel - AP

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Iran Launches English Satellite Channel

The Associated Press
Tuesday, June 26, 2007; 8:38 AM

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's state broadcasting company is launching
an English-speaking satellite television channel to counter the
West's influence in covering news, the network's Web site said.

The 24-hour PRESS TV news channel said its goal was to "break
the global media stranglehold of Western outlets," and "show
the other side of the story" in the Mideast.

The English-speaking network has 26 correspondents around the
world and is due to launch on July 2, Mohammad Sarafraz, the
vice president of Iran's state broadcast company, told reporters.

Sarafraz accused Western networks of bias against Middle East
nations and of spinning the news the way the U.S. government
wants.

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/26/AR2007062600568.html

[originalpckelly]

1. That way when Iran hangs someone because they're gay, they can counter those evil bastids...

who'd you know report the truth about it and stuff. (Keep in mind that CNN International has much higher standards of journalism than domestic shitty CNN. That's what these folks are trying to counter.)

I wish our country wouldn't own a freaking broadcast channel for overseas, and I wish Iran's didn't either.

[Ian David]

2. Do you think they're going to have "To Catch a Homosexual" and "Who Wants to be a 72 Virginaire"?n/t