Iran Launches Another Satellite News Channel

Tehran's charmlessly offensive "charm offensive" in Latin America continues with the launch of a 24-hour Spanish language news channel. At HispanTV's…

By February 01, 2012

Tehran’s charmlessly offensive “charm offensive” in Latin America continues with the launch of a 24-hour Spanish language news channel. At HispanTV‘s launching, Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi delivered the money quote:

“Media has the power to shape the global public opinion, a capability that military power lacks,” he said.

Oh so true.

By the way, the media power Salehi accurately describes is a double-edged sword. Iran’s image in the UK took a hit a few days ago amid the debacle of its English language news/propaganda station — Press TV was kicked off British airwaves.

More on HispanTV’s launch at the Miami Herald.

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Pesach Benson

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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