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Fundamentally, political relations between Europe and Iran are bad because their interests often clash, they do not trust each other and they run their domestic affairs very differently. Perceptions matter. Iran's rulers interpret sympathetic media reports of demonstrations as interference arising from hostility. Insistence that Iran should heed Security Council resolutions on its nuclear program reads as hypocrisy when there is no action on Israel's nukes. The Iranian leadership rejects what it calls double standards on violence: calling for peaceful solutions but waging war in Iraq. Iran's government (but not all its people) rejects cultural influences from...
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Bearing in mind the popularity and competitive nature of online journalism, do you think print media still have a future? Chukwunwikezarramu Okumephuna, LONDON...
Just as Beijing blamed the exiled Dalai Lama for masterminding protests in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, last year (a charge he has strongly denied), China's official media said the violence in Urumqi was fomented by members of the World Uyghur Congress, a group based in Washington. Its head, Rebiya Kadeer, a Uighur entrepreneur who moved to the U.S. in 2005 after being jailed for five years by the Chinese, tells TIME, "I have nothing to do with the demonstrations...
...says something about our media culture that it took a mammoth event held in a sports arena to demonstrate the power of a moment of quiet. Jackson's memorial was an outsize spectacle, befitting an entertainer who engaged the world through outsize spectacles. The performers and eulogizers were A-list, the music anthemic, the casket gold-plated. And yet the service was also cathartic and tasteful, especially compared with the media frenzy that preceded...