On Jun 23, 2009, at 1:03 PM, ken hanly wrote:
> Does anyone know what the status of this website is? Is it state
> owned or state controlled or is it independent to a degree. Skimming
> through the articles it looks to follow official lines on the whole
> but in the comments section it seems completely uncensored with
> scurrilous comments of all types pro and anti Iran.
> The following post gives a favorable impression of the Obama
> administration but slams the US on privacy in general:
>
> http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=98852§ionid=3510203
It's run by the Iranian state, but it's reasonably independent. They did a profile of me the other week. They love American leftists. My sense is that the network is staffed by "liberals," but their freedom of expression is constrained.