This blogger raises a good point about the relative insignificance of the blogosphere in the recent NY Times controversy. He calculates that even if the mighty Instapundit and his numerous minions were to all post something critical of Howell Raines on the same day, it would reach less than 150,000 people, or less than 0.04% of the American people. Taking into account that much of that traffic is from overseas, and a pretty fair share consists of people misdirected from Google and other search engines (I assume that Tennessee law profs have an even worse "Pornikova" problem than I have), and who are less interested in politics, you're dealing with fewer people than those attending ball games this afternoon, or watching Mexican soccer games on Univision each day, or the national audience for anything on MSNBC. If Andres Cantor was to denounce the leftward tilt of the Gray Lady's editorials during a Toluca-Club America match, it would have a much greater impact than anything written by Andrew Sullivan (speaking of which, blogger Roger Ailes has an example of journalistic mendacity by Mr. Sullivan in a recent column that is at least as troubling as anything the NY Times has done recently).

It's humbling to realize how insignificant my favorite little cult really is....