Jameah has created an interesting foundation in Iran. For those of you who are oblivious to what Jameah is, it is a newspaper in Iran. Iran is thought up to be a strict country that engages in actions that limit there media's freedom like the particular case where american journalist Roxanne Saberi was detained on notions of suspicion. Jameah however is some good news since it is the first real free newspaper in Iran as stated by the website Iranchamber. This site also goes on to explain why Iran has arrived to the state of severe media regulation. It speaks of the civil war that occurred in the late 90s in which the country was thrusted into a chaotic time period when alot of the so called markers of a developed country media and technology were put on the back burner. This attempt to understand media in Iran provides an invaluable source of insight. Now back to Jameah that was after all the first real newspaper in Iran. Jameah commented on all not just the bad but the good and issues uniquely endemic to the life of an Iranian civilian. In a study it was determined that Jameahwas received by 80 percent of people living in Tehran and read daily by 40 percent. Jameah was able to link up those in the country with the culture of the city.
So where did Jameah go wrong? They began to comment on the clergy and politics. As a result Jameah began to encounter more opposition and was eventually banned from Iran. Quickly enough the editors of Jameah then opened up a new newspaper called Tous that received the same amount of success just like its predecessor. What is important to note is that Jameah/Tous caused alot of hoopla mostly because of its challenging of clerical theology not necessarily just challenging of political thought. However what Jameah did teach Iran was that there was a need for a newspaper that spoke to the Iranian masses.