Just exactly what kind of news have we been getting from Iran?

Iran is arresting Western journalists.  That's not a big surprise.  What is surprising is the journalists' defense, particularly of a colleague, Maziar Bahari, who works for Time Magazine.  In this article, two reporters give a glimpse of the conditions under which they've been reporting, and then say some revealing things about how they've shaped the news to please the ayatollahs:

 "Dual-citizen journalists often report on subjects the Iranian government considers the most sensitive and endure inconceivable degrees of scrutiny," said Azadeh Moaveni, an Iranian American who has reported from Iran for Time magazine in recent years. "Bahari's journalism these past years has always struck me as textbook objective, which suggests that during this crisis the rules may be changing."
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Bahari's editor, Christopher Dickey, said Bahari, whose partner in England is five months pregnant, had been "treated with respect" during earlier questioning and during his arrest.

"The big risk for Maziar is that his case will be judged not on the basis of Maziar's reporting but on the basis of an idea about him, on the idea of the foreign press" as conspiring against the regime, Dickey said of Bahari, adding that if government authorities read his reporting on the recent protests, "they'd see very quickly how balanced it was." 

It's pretty clear from these quotes that Western journalists in Iran have spent the last few years carefully watching what they report, trying to write only stories that the Iranian government will consider "balanced" and "objective."  Hmm.  I'll bet that Chris Dickey has never once in his life expressed the slightest interest in whether the U.S. government considers his work balanced or objective.