I'd like to say I'm surprised but..

[skinny_cartman]

Remember last year there was pretty much blanket news coverage of the democracy protests in Iran after their elections failed to select the western friendly candidate (or more friendly than I'madinnerjacket - apparently the way to start pronouncing his name properly though it sounds a bit dodgy to me

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[sl4irl]

Orientalism is a strange creature.

[belak_krin]

I think it was more of a case of the Middle East having been all over the news *anyway* so the media had a vested interested in the area.

If you want to get conspiratorial about it, proper Democracy in Iran would support concepts of pressing for Democracy in Iraq being justification for heading over there.

Thaliand on the other hand? Who wants to sit through a long background report on the state of policial unrest in Thailand in order to understand why protests have hit this level? Can't put that into a 5 min revolving article.. best to keep it short and sweet so people can understand.