Something's going very wrong with the Tunisian revolution

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Italy's southern islands are being flooded with Tunisian refugees - the biggest wave in years. Why did nobody in the international media - including Italy's, mind you - keep their eyes on Tunisia once Ben Ali had left?

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Look, present company excluded, can you point me to any British or American newspaperperson of today who could stand up against that lot? (And I haven't mentioned Beachcomber, Keith Waterhouse, Bernard Levin, Walter Lippman, etc etc? Yes, it was not long ago, actually. As for the French press, you yourself said harder things about it than anything I have to say about the Anglo-Saxon and Italian lot. I have actually seen the Italian press degenerate, in a quarter of a century, from a campaigning and constructive part of society to a prostituted and mendacious mob of bought-and-paid-for party hacks. I won't even get into what my German friend The Editrix has to say about standars across the Rhine.... Well, in short, thank God for Matt Drudge.