rss@PersianKiwi Liveblogs Moussavi
Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 12:08 pm
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The Huffington Post’s unstoppable Nico Pitney culls together some of the tweets that @PersianKiwi sent out on Mir Hussein Moussavi’s address to today’s huge demonstration in Tehran. Not really sure why Nico doesn’t Cite @PersianKiwi specifically, but whatever. Here’s what a liveblogged Moussavi reads like:
· I have come due to concerns of current political and social conditions – to defend the rights of the nation
· I have come to improve Irans International relations
· I have come to tell the world and return to Iran our pride, our dignity, our future
· I have come to bring to Iran a FUTURE of FREEDOM, of HOPE, of fulfilment
· I have come to represent the poor the helpless the hungry
· I have come to be ACCOUNTABLE to you my people and to this world
· Iran must participate in FAIR elections, it is a matter of national importance
· I have come to you because of the corruption in Iran
· 25% inflation means IGNORANCE – THIEVING – CORRUPTION – where is the wealth of my nation?
· What have you done with $300 BILLION in last 4 years – where is the wealth of the nation?
· The next Gov of Iran will be chosen by the people
· Why do all our young want to leave this country?
· I know of no creation who places HIMSELF ahead of 20 million of the nation
· We are Muslims – what is happening in Iran Government is a sin
· This Gov is not what Imam Khomeini wanted for Iran – #Irane lection I will change all this – This is the SEA of GREEN
Notice that one about President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad not being what “Imam Khomeini wanted for Iran.” Moussavi’s hacking at all sources of Ahmadinejad’s legitimacy.
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9 Comments
Comment posted June 18, 2009 @ 11:15 pm
Pitney does not cite @persiankiwi because it risks her being traced, having her equipment destroyed, and worse. Twitterers do not cite sources when RTing an Iranian source. They say “RT from Iran”. We have been asked to set our locations to Tehran in order to help mask those who are trying to keep the flow of info going. By “outing” such a source, you place that source in danger. Please consider removing your piece.
Comment posted June 21, 2009 @ 1:36 am
He doesn't link to that twitter user specifically because it would endanger him/her. If you had paid attention at all to the events of #iranelection, you would realize that reposting Iranian users' Twitter names helps nothing and hurts everything.
Please remove that user's name from your post and replace it with, “a reliable source in Iran” or “RT from Iran.”
Comment posted June 21, 2009 @ 1:45 am
Not sure why Nico doesn't cite the source directly? To not get the source killed! The Iranian government is actively trying to locate and stop anyone broadcasting this type of info. Iranians on Twitter have repeatedly requested that everyone NOT identify them directly. So take Nico's lead and keep the names of Tweeters out of your articles. You really could get someone killed. No joke.
Comment posted June 21, 2009 @ 3:32 am
“But whatever” ?? What kind of journalistic deduction is that? Listen to these people. Anyone in the loop on the tweeting of the Iranian protests understands that putting out the names of these real people, REAL PEOPLE, on the streets, guns pointed at them, is incredibly dangerous and stupid! Please, change that part of both your article and the comment below (from Basia) that lists the name of the tweeter (apparently those of us being sent from Twitter to chastise you are also susceptible to complete idiocy).
Comment posted June 21, 2009 @ 3:39 am
Please remove the Twitter's username. It is endangering him. Use “a source from Iran” or just “from Iran.”
Comment posted June 24, 2009 @ 2:54 am
Gee thanks van_proog
I wasn't sent from anywhere, and I asked that the entire thing be removed. Were that the case, my post would also be gone, and yours would be likewise irrelevant. Since the entire article has NOT been removed, my use of the name means nothing. Spencer Ackerman did the damage, not I. Feel important now, Hon?
Comment posted June 24, 2009 @ 2:58 am
Also, since apparently nobody has thought of this in the 5 days since I asked for the piece to be removed, I have contacted the editor to make the same request.
Comment posted June 25, 2009 @ 9:49 am
Gee, why didn't Pitney publish the name of his source? Could it be that your publishing the name of a source in Iran stupidly endangers that source–especially when the Iranian intelligence is doing all they can to track and arrest anyone who talks to Western media? How stupid can you be?
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