it is not strangely silent, it is intentionally silent.
It’s called the black mute doctrine. Obama could walk onto the set of Monday Night Football, shoot the broadcasters on live television and beat Ray Rices wife with a golf club, on live television and nobody would say a thing. They might even compliment his improved swing?!
If you want to find out what’s happening in America, you need to read the British press.
Now I know how the average Soviet citizen felt in 1980. But the average Soviet learned to read between the lines and get to the truth, and even Pravda wrote in a way that was “code” that told the truth if the Soviet citizen could read it.
The average American LIV just lets the media pour crap into their heads.