NEWSWEEK Statement on Maziar Bahari

Now All People in world should know that this regim in Iran is dictator. I hope Maziar immediately release. world governmets don't to flirt with Islamic regim in Iran. they aren't of us. we prisoned by them. (Aryo-Tehran)

"Zeitgeist" refers to the ethos of an identified group of people, that expresses a particular world view which is prevalent at a particular period of socio-cultural progression.The word zeitgeist describes the intellectual, cultural, ethical and political climate, ambience and morals of an era (similar to the English word "mainstream") or also a trend. I hope Canada will do something for Maziar Bahari.

NEWSWEEK is editorially fronted by a fine young humanist and polymath wannabe, Jon Meacham. He is a nice guy. Regular guy with kids and a house or two, an idealist who believes in all things good. Hell of a reader, Jon.
Behind NEWSWEEK's mask is a corporate entity on the ropes. These two facts: corporate entity and desperation, explain a lot of things we see here and things we don't.
Meacham has about as much to do with NEWSWEEK's core as Ronald McDonald has with his namesake corporation. Jolly, serious, too. Really concerned and way tuned out. Perfect corporate shill. Shine on Harvest Moon!
In a world of ever-shifting values, with NEWSWEEK, you sometimes get what you pay for. When you don't, you get fluff, the cotton candy of a capitalist culture rotten all the way down.
Let's see what the sensitively insentient masked men will be selling in five years.
It still won't be news and it will hardly ever be relevant to anything approximating truth.
Sad, cynical, yes-but true.
Hope your kids get in good schools, Jon! Perhaps, in their so doing, your greater goals will then be achieved and we as a nation, we as citizens of a world come apart- desperately seeking something, anything, akin to Reality- can RIP.

Since Newsweek is so full of concern for the plight of people who are detained for no good reason , without charge and without having any access to a lawyer's services,it would be interesting to know how many such people it has tried to defend and help in the US,let alone those in Guantanamo, Bagram, or Abu Ghraib.
Newsweek calls for the immediate release of Maziar Bahari; apparently no one ,at Newsweek, seems to realize that this move is likely to render the man still more suspicious in Iranian eyes.Unless, of course, that were precisely what Newsweek is aiming at.One wonders what the reaction in the US would be if a foreign paper called for the immediate release of somebody wrongly detained in the US.