the revolution will now be televised

The Washington Post, Rice Asks for $75 Million to Increase Pressure on Iran, Feb. 16, 2006:

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asked Congress yesterday to provide $75 million in emergency funding to step up pressure on the Iranian government, including expanding radio and television broadcasts into Iran and promoting internal opposition to the rule of religious leaders. (emphasis added)

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Least Favorite TV Programs

1. Frontline (PBS) - Although one might expect Ahmadinejad to dislike this show's hard-hitting international journalism, he actually stopped watching because a recent special on "The Meth Epidemic" featured addict's mug shots that "totally creeped [him] out." Also, the program refused to respond to his email idea for an episode detailing how the myth of the Holocaust has been spread.
2. Star Trek: Voyager (UPN) - Iran's president is not alone in considering this the weakest installment of the popular sci-fi franchise. He is, however, one of the few "Voyager" critics who cite its lack of detailed nuclear weapons building instructions as the reason for its failure.
3. Best Week Ever (VH1) - Ahmadinejad's biggest complaint is about this show's misleading title. It will not truly be the 'best week ever' until Israel is wiped off the map, he says.
4. Nightline (ABC) – Ahmadinejad hasn’t forgotten that this show was originally titled “The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage.”
5. MythBusters (Discovery) - Hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman found time to determine the veracity of the "Exploding Port-A-Potty" story but still haven't examined the popular myth that the Holocaust took place.
6. Lost (ABC) - Ahmadinejad finds this show implausible because a large number of plane crash survivors have been on the island for months now, and are still discovering hidden sections, but one inspector from the I.A.E.A. was able to find Iran's reactivaed nuclear weapons program in a matter of days. Also, it burns him that hunky Naveen Andrews plays Sayid as an Iraqi, when his character could just as easily have been Iranian.
7. Medium (NBC) - Patricia Arquette's psychic crime drama is a favorite of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. But President Ahmadinejad thinks it is overrated and hopes it will be one of the first targets of Iran's nuclear weapons program, if it has not been cancelled by the time the long-range bombs are completed. He especially disliked a recent episode in which Israel wasn't wiped off the map.