It was like sitting there and watching my own funeral, the mental image that I could be dead, and this could be real.

In 2009, a photo of a woman murdered by the Iranian regime became a symbol of revolution.

Trouble was, it was the wrong photo. From WNYC in New York,

this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone. And I'm Bob Garfield. In Britain, the government

wants to create an independent regulator to oversee a seemingly ungovernable press.

Obviously, over the past 200 years, the media have been drinking in the last chance

saloon of self-regulation. Also, what's life like at home when your dad's the man behind

the infamous Hollywood communist blacklist? Growing up, there was a gun in every drawer,

my father slept with a revolver by his bed. All that and more.

Coming up next.

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In the summer of 2009, a wave of protests broke out in the streets of Iran.

Thousands of young opposition protesters spilled out onto the streets

in a spontaneous outburst of anger against what they said was a rigged election.

...to the stateship. They were shouting, Musavi, get my vote back for me.

Nothing has been seen on the streets of Tehran like this since the revolution right back in 1979.

During one of those protests, a 26-year-old woman named Netta Aga Sultan was killed after being shot in the chest.

A tragedy captured on cell phone video.

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