Andrew Sullivan's wall-to-wall coverage of reports from Iran can be overwhelming in real time, butilluminating if you scroll back through it, reading in light of more news and some alanlysis. The geius of the Internet is it makes possible the immediate transmittla of vast amounts of information; it's downfall it that that is all it does. The filtering, and sorting and differentiation between wwhat is true and what is a rumor anbd what is playing the western media- all that has to come later. NOt very gratifying in an instant gratification world.
But amid the blood and violence, some symbolic items have turned up that illustrate the dilmena of authoritarian regimes everywhere: let in consumer good and electronic media, and sooner or later, you are sunk. Two examples from The Daily Dish:
-and this from June 14. It's the underwear. Theocracy and Calvin Klein cannot long endure.
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