http://news.yahoo.com/photos/man-on-fire-at-national-mall-in-washington-dc-1380924976-slideshow/

Notice the complete lack of images of the burning man?  Had this been Tibet or Tunisia that was not a problem.  But a guy self-immolates in the Capitol and the press is not only incurious . . . they want everyone else to be incurious as to 'why' too.