Howard Chua-Eoan, writing for TIME, has an essay which he titles, “What the World Didn’t See in Tehran.” He notes that yesterday, amidst protests and gunfire, Iranian state television broadcast soap operas, news that Rafael Nadal was going to skip Wimbledon, and Pakistan’s efforts against the Taliban.
He observes,
As a journalist, I cannot say that what I have read and seen today is the whole story: everything is too piecemeal, too unconfirmable, too one-sided. But experiencing the raw feed of history has been chilling. As we try to carve out the truth from the speculation and relentlessly repeated reports of outrage, the overall impression is one of immense sadness and tragedy, of a country seeking to preserve itself by destroying itself.