On Twitter and Iran

Kevin Drum has a well considered piece on the role of twitter and the MSM in the Iranian election here. I'd say the whole thing is worth a read, but here are the notable passages on twitter:

But protests have happened before without either Twitter or the internet. And if we westerners had to rely on only a single news source to tell us what what going on, I'd still choose the dwindling band of serious outlets that provide real reporting from dangerous (and expensive) places. Cable news may not have covered itself with glory this weekend, but there are still a few precincts of the MSM that did.