Thom Forbes

I have been following tweets and YouTube videos out of Iran for a few hours and I feel totally drained, as if someone close to me had died. This raw footage, or this, is so much more powerful and graphic than the filtered news reports we are used to. It's inspiring at the same time, but ultimately frustrating.  What can we do but bear witness? That seems so inadequate.

We're conditioned for the voice of the omniscient reporter to put it all in perspective, but the relentless, unedited tweets…