silence on Tunisia

""Not even torture, which is rampant or live bullets which the Tunisian authorities are using with greater frequency stop them. [...] The United States State Department remains silent in face of the Tunisian protests. Since the protests began on December 17, 2010, there has been little media coverage in the mainstream US media, virtually nothing on mainstream television, nothing in the New York Times or Wall Street Journal, or for that matter even Democracy Now!"" (thanks anonymous)