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James Poniewozik wrote Wednesday that the Colbert speech is becoming “the political-cultural touchstone issue of 2006.” So it seems that thanks to the Internet, this speech may end up getting the attention it deserves. Maybe. Poniewozik writes for TIME, but this piece appear on his Tuned In blog for TIME.com. So while Poniewozik uses the trajectory of attention paid to this speech to demonstrate “how authority is fragmented and democratized in the Internet era,” I still haven’t seen much to convince me that authority has become democratized on any other media.

So, to the extent that the Internet actually matters, woo-hoo! But otherwise, it’s still the Bush/Bridges story and the ordinary, centralized, lack of critical reporting that carries the day.

• Read Stephen Colbert and the Death of “The Room” (TIME Tuned in blog)

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