Very true. I'll add that journalists, including foreign ones, are an endangered species in Iran. Reporting fluffy, sugary news like this story is much safer tha

Very true. I'll add that journalists, including foreign ones, are an endangered species in Iran. Reporting fluffy, sugary news like this story is much safer than doing any real journalism about the dozens of real issues facing the country. Thomas Erdbrink's recent video reports for the NYT which carefully skirt any sensitive issues and avoids any hints of criticism is another example. Not that I blame him or any other journalists! Just like Jason Rezaian, Thomas has a Persian wife and I understand that his first thought is for his own and his family's safety. It just means that as a consumer you have to be intelligent and discerning so as to not mistake the type and manner of reporting done in Iran with that done inside a free Western style liberal democracy. http://en.rsf.org/iran.html http://en.rsf.org/iran.html Source: Iranian living outside Iran (vali hanooz bache tehrooni :)