To piggyback on Jon's post on media coverage of the Iranian election in China, Burma, and Cuba, here are few more examples:

Russian Media: Julia Ioffe over at TNR wrote a great article on coverage in Russia. Money quote:

"Though it's impossible to generalize, there's one fairly obvious explanation for such uniformly accepting coverage: This just doesn't look like a rigged election to Russians, because Russians don't rig their elections; they engineer them."

Arab Media: Salameh Nematt at the Daily Beast and Josie Delap and Robert Lane Greene at TNR both do an excellent job of reviewing the similarities and more importantly the difference in coverage across the Arab world. (Nematt's post is here and Delap and Greene's here.)

Chinese Media: Evan Osnos analyzes Chinese blog coverage of Iran here.

-Evan

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