Was it Sheryl Crow and Laurie David's tiff with Karl Rove that put Arthur Sulzberger & Co. over the edge? Perhaps. Perhaps not. But either way, after Frank Rich announced in his Sunday column that the Times would no longer attend the White House Correspondents dinner, the media bubble has entered analyzation mode.

Why is the Times choosing this year to cease its RSVPs? Was it that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was mostly focused on snapping a photo with Sanjaya? Or that the post-dinner debate has mostly focused on whether there was spitting involved in that Crow-David-Rove incident?

This morning Jay Rosen woke up and wrote at least a thousand words on what this will all mean. Yesterday, David Carr dedicated his column to bashing the Washington press corps that got Stephen Colbert into so much trouble. Even the often not-entirely-believable ContactMusic.com weighed in, noting that no other news organization had announced plans to follow the Grey Lady's lead.

Mostly because those little shrimp appetizers are just to die for.