![]() She may have been partly correct if you were a kid in the 50s or 60s. There is no evidence that children or adults will damage their vision if they sit too close to the television. Mom is right most of the time…but when it comes to television viewing distance, she’s wrong – at least today. Was Mom right when she yelled at you for sitting too close to the television? The Tehran Bureau is an independent media organisation, hosted by the Guardian.Posted in Eye Health, Uncategorized | December 22, 2015 Rohollah Faghihi is a journalist in Iran. This is a national issue - we care about our country, and don’t want our people to use foreign websites.” ![]() “But if they don’t allow us to grow, people will flock to the American YouTube. ![]() “We’re not allowed to advertise on state TV, they’ve banned us,” he said. Shakouri argues this is both short-sighted and detrimental for the industry as a whole. FilmNet has also been attracting viewers, featuring two-hour interviews, conducted by acclaimed director Fereidoun Jeyrani, with controversial actors during the Fajr Film Festival.Īparat has also created another website, Filimo, which screens Iranian and foreign movies, a further means of undermining state television.Īccording to the Iranian news site Cinema Press, the new channels, and especially the Night Vision programme, are responsible for Irib’s decision to resume the famous talk show Nation Park, which was scrapped in 2012 after its host Mohamamd-Reza Shahidifar criticised the managers at state television.īut Irib refuses to make any of its own content available online, apparently in a determination to maintain a strict demarcation between state and online media. “Why doesn’t Irib?”Īlso among new Farsi internet channels is TV Plus, which has focused on interviewing celebrities since launching two years ago. “The world describes …as a victory for Iran,” Zarif told viewers. The foreign minister pulled few punches in criticising state television for not “broadcasting news and reports that will make Iranians proud” and in arguing Iran had thwarted the United States’ desire to eliminate Tehran’s nuclear programme. Night Vision, presented by Reza Rashidpour, has interviewed several officials, including Zarif. Looking to increase those numbers, Aparat has launched a show similar to the BBC’s Hardtalk. Shakouri regards Aparat as the Iranian version of YouTube and claims it has 25 million viewers every month. “When you post a video interview or any other clips, there is no longer a need for permission from any governmental organisation,” he told Tehran Bureau. Mahdi Shakouri, creator of Iran’s popular online channel Aparat, believes the Internet intrinsically undermines monopolies. “Iran’s society has started taking a professional approach with social networks and online channels.” “I think we witnessed the monopoly of voice and picture being broken by ordinary and civilised people,” he said. Rezaian believes the elections were proof of changing times for Irib. Despite an official ban on the media mentioning Mohammad Khatami, the former reformist president during February’s elections released a short clip on social media, including Telegram, encouraging people to vote for reformists and ‘moderates’, whose supporters then spread Khatami’s message on social media. Online broadcasting has found their way into people’s lives, whether Irib likes it or not. Recent interviews with controversial figures – including the lawyer of Babak Zanjani, a tycoon sentenced to death for corruption – have tackled issues rarely raised on state television. Hamid Rasaie, a parliamentary deputy, wrote on his Telegram channel in January: “If Irib had covered the fall of the stock market index, the Rouhani administration would have taken action.”Įven the conservative Basij News, run by Iran’s paramilitary volunteer militia, is helping break Irib’s monopoly. When Navad, its most popular show, spoke to him in December, the interview didn’t air because Irib managers blocked it. Zarif, who some consider a national hero, is not welcome on Iran’s state TV.
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