…be televised.
The slogan much bandied about recently comes from Gil Scott-Heron’s magnificent “proto-rap”. It was a prescient line: in Iran, television is a state apparatus. The uprising was cell-phoned, youtubed, tweeted and aggregated by private users and technologies.
fyi: lyrics at the youtube page.
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May we tweet the revolution then? Or is Scott-Heron’s particular revolution now passe?