There's already a media throng starting...

...and not just in Canada and the U.K., the two nations which, as of last night, seemed the only ones interested enough to bother sending correspondents to the Dirksen building. As of now, the American media isn't exactly sending a throng of correspondents over, but are beginning to post items on the trial in increasing numbers. It remains to be seen whether or not the American news value of the trial will change the cost-benefit calculations of the American media, which as of now have decided on letting the mousies do the flying. The Chicago Sun-Times is beginning to wake up, at least online.

There is a Time write-up on the travails of Conrad Black as of now, so the circus may yet be expanded from two rings to two side rings and one center (American) ring.

Another write-up appears in National Review Online courtesy of David Frum. [Mr. Frum has dispatches on the trial as a recurring feature in his blog.] There's an interesting personal angle with regard to Mr. Frum: he disclosed that his father-in-law, Peter Worthington [link kindly supplied by Mr. Frum], was covering the trial for Sun Media. Mr. Worthington is his wife Danielle's step-dad.