The international media rush to the country to interview his family.
Russian news outlets and social media rush out dozens of alternative explanations and possible culprits.
The Showtime crew left camp (they'll be in and out all season), and the initial media rush to capture the new arrivals in their new duds subsided.
One wants to say, as one who's been through that kind of media rush, that there is no connection between reality and the media circus.
"Despite a sort of media rush to judgment after Sept. 11, there really hasn't been much of a change in audience tastes," said Tom Rothman, co-chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment, which includes the 20th Century Fox film studio.
But once the initial media rush to cover the announcement had passed, reactions to the group's 100-page, densely footnoted report, "Fool's Gold: A Critical Look at Computers in Childhood," were mixed.
And when they pick up a gun and turn themselves into a one-man barbarian horde, we in the media rush in with the cameras, the profiles and the nonstop commentary that will inevitably inspire some future Attila the Hun.
In response to this near anointing of Mattingly as the next manager, I can only ask: where, exactly, is that liberal news media Rush Limbaugh was ranting about, the crusaders so interested in the causes of the African-American quarterback and coach?
