Parazit: Voice of America or voice of the people?

Can the VOA help Iran's pro-reform movement, or is it peddling Washington's agenda?

Guests: Kambiz Hosseini, Saman Arbabi, Nima Shirazi

Thumbnail image: Kris Krüg for PopTech/FLICKR

Category:

• News
• Science & Tech

Tags:

• thestream
• youtube
• aljazeera

[7amadloo]

Why are these people even given a platform. Qatari regime paid anchors talking to American regime paid anchors. No one takes this ridiculous show seriously except Iranian economic refugees who live in the West and hear what they like, 0.002% of people inside Iran even knows it exists. All of their bs they accuse Iran of exists in America, but that's hands off.

[MrAnymeansnecessary]

16:03...so your solution is to provide one-sided information? Propaganda is the solution for propaganda? Nice.

[near10]

I watch and like parazit but to say that they addressed the terrorist "plot" is not being honest to say the least

[MrTrenttness]

"We want to take advantage of western ideas of free speech, technology, and fashion instead of the cultuals of our home lands but you still must hate America."

[Di0genesus]

@UKBOXlNGFAN

I forget that corporations are more saintly and flawless than states, because they're in no way one in the same.

[UKBOXlNGFAN]

@Di0genesus the differences is Colbert and Stewartthey are non state own unlike these two who are the puppet of American government

[pgunn01]

I wish the moderator had been more strict in preventing people from talking over each other.

[pgunn01]

@Di0genesus Every media is owned by somebody. Viacom's ownership seems pretty light-handed, given that.

[Di0genesus]

Colbert and Stewart aren't owned? They're owned by Viacom, who owns MTV, the network that uses pop culture propaganda to program the young and influential, telling them what to buy, who to hate, and what to think. Colbert and Steward criticize politicians and opposing media, but they don't criticize their owners. That's just how it works.

[Di0genesus]

@LizaLermontov

They have a legitimate beef with their country's leadership, and a public platform for that isn't available thru domestic sources. It's just like Russia Today and the US. I KNOW I'm watching propaganda when watching RT, but it's often addressing the same grievances I have with America that aren't allowed in the US press. It's all propaganda, views, whether it's a populist issue or a corporate/state fascists' views telling the public what to think.