In Coverage of Iran, Amateurs Take the Lead - by Brian Stelter
As foreign journalists are forced to leave Tehran amid protests, news organizations are looking more and more to the Iranians themselves to provide the news, or at least the pictures. Dozens of videos of the sometimes violent protests by opponents of the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have appeared on YouTube and other sites in the days after last Friday’s presidential election. Newspapers and television news networks are supplementing their on-the-ground reporting with the images, with frequent caveats that their authenticity cannot be verified.
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