shaken but not stirred

The shocking sudden death of Tim Russert yesterday was etched on the faces of every media player and politico who was interviewed on television about it yesterday and into the night (see TV Newser here and here and here and here and here, etc., for complete coverage of the coverage), but the news cycle and the blogosphere move on even as media insiders mourn.

There are only a few Russert links up at Memeorandum now, and it has been less than 24 hours since media insiders were dealt the body blow of losing one of their own well-loved favorites.

Tim Russert was the very definition of the MSM … but the internet waits for no man.

“News” (compelling stories of gossip and intrigue; political attacks; literary feuds; natural disasters; and PRopaganda^TM) of events and pseudo-events cascades over us with the power of Niagara Falls.

We are shaken (by evidence of man’s—and nature’s—cruelty to man) but not easily stirred—or bestirred even to change our minds, much less to act. A conundrum, that.