The Twitter & Aljazeera Revolution

Tunisia is not the Twitter revolution. It’s not the Aljazeera revolution. It’s both, argues Marc Lynch:

Without the new social media, the amazing images of Tunisian protestors might never have escaped the blanket repression of the Ben Ali regime — — but it was the airing of these videos on al-Jazeera, even after its office had been shuttered, which brought those images to the mass Arab public and even to many Tunisians who might otherwise not have realized what was happening around their country.

Some people have tried to squeeze in Al-Akhbar but that’s complete nonsense. Not by a long shot.