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=2110158It will definitely be interesting to see how long CNN and others covers the events in Tunisa moving forward.
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