I was playing cricket* yesterday, so wasn’t able to follow events in Iran too closely. Happily, Andrew Sullivan’s blog means that it’s easy to catch-up. Andrew, of course, has been at his considerable best these past few days, but yesterday’s marathon live-blog was something else. Newspapers, at least in this instance, are now the second draft of history; blogs, Youtube, camera phones and Twitter are the first.
Reading Andrew’s live-blog – a compendium of tweets from Iran, video footage, stills photography, commentary and links to other sources of information around the web – is a pretty draining experience; producing it must have exhausted Andrew and his brace of helpers, Chris Bodenner and Patrick Appel. It really is living history. There’s an immediacy and a passion that thrills, even as some of the stories highlighted chill the blood and leave one feeling shaken and appalled.
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