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Posted By SophiaClarke 1 month, 3 weeks ago in NewsThree journalists, one of them foreign, were arrested at Wednesday’s mass demonstrations in Tehran by a regime determined to suppress all independent sources of information.
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CHAM1 month, 3 weeks ago
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Sophia, an interesting post.
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Note the title uses the plural Journalists. The third word in the Article and the lead-in uses the singular word "one" to denote the number of Foreign Journalists arrested.
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Thinker221 month, 3 weeks ago
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> Why do you think this little nit-pik occurred?
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I'm afraid that YOU should answer your own question, CHAM, but first, you should read the statement again. It says "THREE Journalists... were arrested" meaning that the number of journalists arrested was PLURAL.
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awongscreen1 month, 3 weeks ago
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Maybe you want to elaborate on taking out Iran. Do you mean repeating the same Iraq scenario, nuke the country :(?
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I came across many Iranian in school and at work and they are good people. They do not deserve to be taken out because of some religious fanatics. -
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Daylight1 month, 3 weeks ago
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Engineer, hard power is dead, it has no place in any society but there are a lot soft power can be used to resolve problems faced by countries that are developing. You have developed killing mentality by supporting Zionists or being a Zionist yourself. World has enough problem and don't think NATO is a superman,
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cowboygrandpa1 month, 3 weeks ago
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Freedom of the press is so important in any nation, that claims to be rulers for the people instead over the people.
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All we have to do is to look at the worlds recent history to see what happens.
When freedom of the press and freedom of speech are curtailed in the censoring by government intervention. Used in the form of propaganda spewing "news" speeches put out for the publics consumption. Lies are propagated as being the truth, and truth is denounced as being unpatriotic.-
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Thinker221 month, 3 weeks ago
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> Freedom of the press is so important in any nation, that claims to be rulers for the people instead over the people.
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Freedom of the press can be interpreted differently. In the former Soviet Union, for example, it was (officially) said that the Soviet press was free because it had the freedom to praise the Communist Party and its actions. Further, it was said that freedom was nothing more but "realized necessity" meaning that when the people "realized" that it was necessary (for the Communist leaders) to do whatever they've done the people became "free". -
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CHAM1 month, 3 weeks ago
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Thinker, I don't know if what you wrote was meant to be false or not, you are probably just plain stupid, but either you mis-read what I wrote or as usual you are just spewing your usual dung.
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I vote for the spewing dung, because I realize that your estimation of yourself vastly exceeds the reality.
You need to go back and read the article again and the lead in once again and then what I wrote in my initial comment.
If you do you will notice I wrote that the Article title used the Plural "Foreign Journalists" and that the article spoke of a singular "one" Foreign Journalist.
Come back on here and apologize once you realize the error of your "Thinking". I will forgive you. Somebody needs to give you some help.
God I wish I was as intelligent as you think you are, and wouldn't you rather be 1/2 the thinker the rest of us on here know you as? We then might be able to carry on a civil conversation.
But you've really just got crap for brains and so I guess the fact that you don't know it allows you the excuse that you are just utterly stupid.
Why don't you change your moniker to "StupidIis". We can just pity you then, because we will know you by your handle.-
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Thinker221 month, 3 weeks ago
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This is the best you're capable of, CHAM?
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> I wrote that the Article title used the Plural "Foreign Journalists" and that the article spoke of a singular "one" Foreign Journalist.
False. The Article spoke about THREE journalists, one of them foreign. Further, TWO of these arrested journalists were working for foreign news agencies. Still further, according to the article "international press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders said: “At least a hundred journalists and cyberdissidents have been arrested since the election and 23 of them are still being held.”"
In addition, the article said that "Western journalists are now barred from Iran, and some of the few who were based there before the election, including the BBC correspondent Jon Leyne, have been expelled. Maziar Bahari, a Canadian working for Newsweek, was held for 118 days before being released on bail and allowed to leave for London last month."
Of course you WOULD know all that if you've read the article as you claimed you did and you WOULD NOT try to twist its content by nit-picking the single foreigner arrested among the three and ignoring a hundred or more others that were arrested since the last elections.
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CHAM1 month, 3 weeks ago
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This is what I originally wrote:
"Note the title uses the plural Journalists. The third word in the Article and the lead-in uses the singular word "one" to denote the number of Foreign Journalists arrested.
Why do you think this little nit-pik occurred?"
The following is the Title
"Iran Arrests Foreign Journalists"
Here is the lead in:
"Three journalists, one of them foreign, were arrested at Wednesday’s mass demonstrations in Tehran by a regime determined to suppress all independent sources of information."
You have got to be one of the most ignorant people on this thread to argue that what I originally wrote is not what is represented in the Title and the lead in. And that is what my original comment was. I think you are too low wattage to understand. And I believe that in an earlier encounter you claimed to be a Teacher, is that correct?
If you really are a Teacher, I'll bet your students make fun of you, but not to your face, They know a dipstick when they see one.
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Daylight1 month, 3 weeks ago
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In fact the foreign journalists re real war mongers in a country that is going through some unrest. The western journalists are there to create more problem for the country, so the authorities are right in arresting them or deporting them. A government cannot just let an opposition ruin a country just because some people are not satisfied with the election result. Election in Afghanistan was the most corrupt one in the history of elections but now Hamid Karzi is a perfect leader because he is going along with the US interest in the region. The freedom is choosing sides There no real truth in the freedom of speech.
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CHAM1 month, 3 weeks ago
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I agree with you daylight. I am reminded of some of the "Reporter Stories" tht we have been subjected to here in the United States to help promote a war in Iraq. And after the invasion some of the blatant lies that was spread to the American Public.
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A couple of examples:
The saving of Private Lynch
The Tillman Hero story
Anybody remember these blockbusters?
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