Iran versus Burma: Why the media double-standard?

I've read conflicting accounts of what has happened -- is happening -- in Iran. I know this: I see no reason to feel fondness for Mousavi and no reason to feel fondness for Ahmadinejad. I do not trust U.S. intentions toward Iran. The neocons in the United States and Israel hope to subvert the current regime in Iran and replace it with a member of the bloody Pahlavi family.

We may all agree on one thing: The media coverage demonstrates an outrageous double standard. Mytwords at Corrente scoffs at NPR's newfound obsession with the European protests against Iran. When Europeans mounted far larger demonstrations against Dubya's invasion of Iraq in 2003, NPR didn't give a damn. Neither did anyone else in the American media.

This blogger asks:

Iran, Iran, Iran. You would think this was the only news in the world. Odd isn't it?...

Look at the G-20 protests. The coverage that was given served to portray the protestors in a negative light and law enforcement as doing their job to keep the peace. Even when the death of an innocent bystander resulted, Ian Tomlinson at the hands of head bashing police officers, the main stream media stayed quite quiet. Apologies I stand corrected, quiet, except for the smear campaign that was launched against the victim after the police brutality was exposed!

I would like to draw a comparison to the American media's treatment of the saintly Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

As much as I dislike Iranian theocracy, Burma's brutality is far worse. Iran, at least, has some elements of democracy; Burma has none. Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is under arrest at this writing, and the Burmese government is cracking down on anyone who dares to celebrate her birthday.

Are there any demonstrations against Burma, in Europe or elsewhere? And if there were, would NPR cover them?

Incidentally, the graphic comes to us by way of good old Shep. I HOPE that the artist who gave us that wretched Mao-like Obama icon he has finally and permanently removed his cranium from his anium.

I first learned about Suu Kyi from John Boorman's 1995 film Beyond Rangoon. The key clip from that movie is presented below. Let the video completely load up, then skip ahead to the 2:30 mark.