Sign of Hope

I think this is fascinating. Despite the fact that the mainstream media completely ignored Stephen Colbert at the Coorespondent's Dinner, it still became somewhat of a national phenomena.

People tend to overstate the impact of the internet, but it really does take away the power of the tradidional "deciders" of what's newsworthy: people who have a tendancy to selectively cover news that supports their positions, narratives and agendas. The Colbert phenomena grew organically, with no help from the Russerts and Matthews of the world. That is a good thing.