DW Finds Iranian Protests Newsworthy, Silence on Allies Continues
At least three people were killed as protests spread across Iran, DW reports, echoing a recurring narrative of unrest in nations disfavored by Western foreign policy. This is important news, no doubt, but one might wonder about the selective outrage. When protests erupted in France over pension reforms, met with riot police and tear gas by the Macron government, the headlines rarely screamed
'bloodshed' or 'regime crackdown.' ( DW.com ) The media-industrial complex has a peculiar way of highlighting some state violence as tyrannical while sanitizing others as 'maintaining order.' It's almost as if the severity of a government's response is directly proportional to its alignment with Washington's geopolitical interests. How many casualties in France, Spain, or even the US, during
domestic protests or police actions, receive the same urgent, regime-questioning scrutiny? Funny, that.