foreign policy blogger here. question about your coverage of the middle east over the past two years. twitter, youtube -- social media in general doesn't get the whole picture of life in, say, egypt, wouldn't you agree?
how do you reconcile the picture of a country in turmoil you get from twitter or whatever other tools (and then paint for the rest of us watching your feed) with what is actually happening on the ground?
i'd say one important thing about the "arab spring" many of us have learned since tahrir square is that what we see on twitter is not representative of everyone and everything going on.
or do you believe that what you see on twitter actually is representative?
lastly, who/what do you read/watch if you want to know what's really going on in the middle east?
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foreign policy blogger here. question about your coverage of the middle east over the past two years. twitter, youtube -- social media in general doesn't get the whole picture of life in, say, egypt, wouldn't you agree?
how do you reconcile the picture of a country in turmoil you get from twitter or whatever other tools (and then paint for the rest of us watching your feed) with what is actually happening on the ground?
i'd say one important thing about the "arab spring" many of us have learned since tahrir square is that what we see on twitter is not representative of everyone and everything going on.
or do you believe that what you see on twitter actually is representative?
lastly, who/what do you read/watch if you want to know what's really going on in the middle east?
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