Dennis DiClaudio has a good take on the question of how much blame the media should bear for the media’s coverage of the Terry Jones media feeding frenzy: Media Reports on Media Wondering If Media Maybe Had Some Role in Terry Jones Becoming Media Darling.

Will Terry Jones end up burning a divinely-inspired book of universal truths that is slightly different from his preferred divinely-inspired book of universal truths*? Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe I will drive an ice pick into my own brain through my eye socket if I have to keep hearing about this nonsensical bullshit. Anything is possible!

However, the real question that is facing the American media today is what the American media makes of all this, and to what extent can the American media blame the American media for the American media’s complicity in the American media’s role in getting the American media all wrapped up in this American media frenzy? It’s a real puzzler.

It really is a tough question. I hope the media digs into this one.