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Comment by gregory80 | Hacker News Reader

the revolts and demonstrations, and even murdering of journalists, continues to get very little attention in the US media. Despite blogs, social media and video sharing sites being part of the vehicle of dissent. I wonder if mass media feels a bit burned by the previous Iran 'twitter revolution' not leading to a greater outcome.

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what is "very little attention" ?

I saw it on CNN at a pizza place a few days ago.

Not saying that people shouldn't talk about it more, but whenever somebody says something isn't being covered by the "main stream media" I can usually show otherwise with a quick google search.

Often it is just code for: "Why aren't people caring about this issue that i care about?"

Not always the case, I'm just tired of hearing people say that.

Here in Europe, it sure has been in every newspaper and every newspaper for quite some days.

Here in Paris this is a huge story. In addition, Tunisia is a major source of programming talent for French companies - if you work on the web in France you are sure to meet Tunisians on a regular basis. Tunisia is very "real" place for us.

A former French colony too.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/French_occupa...

Is it just programming or other fields too?

I've been to Tunisia and was surprised that everybody knows French there, and I know there's at least one university with some good students, so it is not unexpected.

A baseline comparison is all that is needed. If a story gets about as much coverage as any random fluff piece about a star tripping on the sidewalk, then no it is not really being covered.

excellent point, often that is the case. I should have followed up with more concrete evidence, but as jdp23 points out, CNN coverage was after the fact. As is my posting of this article to HN. jdp23 comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2110158

It will definitely be interesting to see how long CNN and others covers the events in Tunisa moving forward.

[edited for clarification]

I can't hazard a guess at the efficiency of their fact checking procedures,but they seem to at least try to have one.

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