The newspapers have been generally useless in covering the Iranian elections over the weekend. While the major media outlets have let the story drop on the cutting room floor a robust and notable process of information flow is happening via Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed over the weekend. What the media will not cover, the social media sphere is full of news, good, bad, and ugly.

While American newspapers have been quietly ignoring what is becoming a meltdown and crack down in Tehran this weekend as the results of the election become public with the reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be the President of Iran. The bridging divide between what is being covered in the USA press and what is being covered via new media in light of the importance of Iran and our relations with a soon to be nuclear power are strategically important to the USA in general. If the newspapers are going to ignore it, social media is going to plaster the results and the eventual outcome all over the internet. Even with the blockages of phone service and internet service (rumor