John Ibbitson wrote an interesting article today titled ‘How does U.S. democracy survive without its newspapers? ‘. Funny really, because most people in my social network today are posting and tweeting about almost the very opposite question: how blogs are an essential tool for democracy in Iran.
Well, not that funny, because after painting a dismal picture of the print media industry in the US. Ibbitson concludes that blogs and other web 2.0 based tools will answer the call.
For an interesting graphical analysis of the Iranian election debate I highly recommend reading the Internet and Democracy blog at Harvard: mapping Iran’s election.
