The Way of the Dinosaurs

Andrew Sullivan:

In the blogosphere, we are sometimes in tune with national moods. My gut tells me that the Nick Berg video has had much more psychic impact in this country than the Abu Ghraib horrors. I even notice some small evidence for this. Every political blog site has just seen an exponential jump in traffic – far more than anything that occurred during the Abu Ghraib unfolding. My traffic went through the roof yesterday, and, according to Alexa, so did everyone else’s. People who have tuned the war out suddenly tuned the war in. They get it. Will the mainstream media?

Much as they publically despise it, the mainstream media still lives and dies by the profit motive. So they’ll eventually have to get the war — or die ignoring it.

UPDATE: Steven Taylor comments.