iran unfiltered

The editors of six conservative Iranian news websites have written a letter to major Western media outlets to complain about bias and unprofessionalism in the latter group's coverage of Iran since the June election.  The six sites are: Alef (run by influential Majles member Ahmad Tavakoli), Farda (close to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad), Hamshahri (the official paper of Tehran's local government and thus close to its mayor Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf), Jahan (run by Majles member Alireza Zakani), Khabar (close to Majles Speaker Ali Larijani) and Tabnak (affiliated with Mohsen Rezaee).  The letter's authors point to their sites' often critical views of the Ahmadinejad government as proof that they are objective and independent, but that proves neither claim; they (with the exception of Farda) are in fact often un-objectively pushing the interests of their above-named sponsors, which happen to be aided by criticism of Ahmadinejad.    

Enduring America's Scott Lucas has written a great response to the letter.