You don't have to approve of Stephen Colbert's utterly scathing performance at this past weekend's White House Press Correspondents Association Dinner (video here), but what's very interesting (at least from the media conglomorate perspective) was the nearly complete silence about the whole thing in mainstream media.
That is, until the "blogstorm," both for and against the performance, forced it to appear finally in the New York Times...
What do you think? Whether you approve of Colbert's lambasting of the President or not, was it newsworthy? Should mainstream media have reported more about the heated reactions from all sides sooner than four days later, do you think??
(Humor is a longstanding tradition at this dinner of White House journalists... And so, either way, I have to admit that the hands-down funniest routine was maybe actually that with Bush himself, together with a comedian imitating him and his inner thought processes ... That's the real Bush on the left! Enjoy!!)
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