CNN.com interviews Nora Paul on Iran election protests cell phone video
Posted on Thursday, 25 June 2009
Just as Kent State, Vietnam, and Tiananmen Square all have iconic images embedded in their history, the cell phone video of a mortally wounded bystander in Iran’s election protests will forever be linked to the movement it galvanized. Despite the country’s hardline media censorship, the graphic video footage of a dying Neda Agha-Soltan spanned the world on social networking sites.
In this CNN.com story, Nora Paul mentioned more recent images captured by amateurs such as the 1991 beating by Los Angeles police of Rodney King and the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings. Referring to the vastness of the Internet once images are posted, she was quoted, "Even if you try to control access, the dam is already broken."
Full story: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/24/neda.iconic.images/index.html
