Iran vis-a-vis the US reaction to vote fraud...

[Postman]

I'm wondering how the US media would have covered mass protests in the streets in America if people would have turned out in 2000 like they are in Iran today.......Would it be similar to the attention they paid to the anti-war protests in October 2002 and February 2003?

Would the US media cover violent crackdowns on protesters from cops with graphic video? Or would they show the outliers throwing a brick through a store window and portray that as the mainstream protest?

Are they portraying the movement in Iran in terms of liberal vs. Conservative? Clearly they are moving toward a more Liberal society and away from Conservative values, does the US media focus on this aspect?

[NWHarkness]

1. The answer to that is obvious

There WAS a mass protest- on Inauguration Day. Hundreds of thousands of people went to DC to protest and the media not only refused to cover it, they went so far as to turn off the audio as Bush drove down Pennsylvania Avenue, so the audience at home could not hear that the majority of people there were anti-Bush.

[WeDidIt]

2. Um, they claimed the protesters were supporting *

On inauguration day, they counted the protesters as supporters of the blivet.

In other words, they treated the protests like the Iranian state media is treating their protesters.

[tocqueville]

3. the US mass protests are very limited compared to the size of the population

On few occasions one can see maybe up to a million in a country of 300 millions

if you compare to Europe this very little. Million protests happen every ten year in France (63 millions) only in Paris, but protests of half a million are not rare. Same can be said about Italy, Spain and to a certain extent the UK and Germany.

Do the math.