Citizens Drenched in Blood

In contrast however, the Tehran protesters were not portrayed as “other.” The media concentrated on defining the “Green Movement” as a group of oppressed individuals who were abused by their own government. To me this was shocking, because the U.S. government treated Americans the same way just ten years earlier.



How could it be that the treatment was somehow being portrayed in a completely different light? The press positioned their coverage from a humanitarian angle, centered on the violation of civil liberties and portrayed this sort of action as un-American. CBS news quoted a CNN interview of a female witness who sated, "They beat a woman so savagely that she was drenched in blood."