Iran: A Wealthy Useless Journal!

Posted 1 May 2006 8:07 GMT

Countries	Iran
Topics	Media & Journalism

Iran

Farjami (Persian) criticized the wealthiest journal in country, Ettelaat. He says Ettelaat with tens of buildings and hundreds of workers has a useless site and its paper journal's graphic is scandalous. Blogger adds all this public money poured in this journal is just throwing it in a well. He says some reformists back journal by saying its editor who has been a deputy in Parliament , never got his deputy's salary. Blogger says point is not he gets a huge salary or not. Point is productivity and quality of this journal. He qualifies Ettelaat a beloved dead.

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