Staying number one isn't easy. In the few hours since we reviewed the world's most popular news stories pot smoking no longer holds the attention of NY Times readers - instead, they're becoming afraid. Krugman's piece has rocketed to number one - which illustrates one trend, people like opinion pieces. His piece ends with, "Be afraid. Be very afraid." And sadly, he may have a point. In it Obama is quoted as saying that Democrats need to have an "appropriate sense of humility," and that he would "spend more time building consensus." Change - positive change - is going to be slow going.
A quick run down of a few more changes since this morning:
Economics is grabbing people's attention on the West Coast. And now at number one on the Washingtpost is a sad commentary on when attention becomes totally captured.
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