"Similarly, the sometimes smart Jacques Steinberg must have drawn the short straw at the New York Times, where there had to be some internal conversation about the paper's utter failure to even mention Colbert on Monday. After all, his sharpest jokes involved the paper's laudable NSA spying scoop, and a funny bit where Colbert offered to bump columnist Frank Rich if Bush would appear on his show Tuesday night -- and not just bump him for the night, but bump him off. How could the Times not notice? "
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/05/03/correspondents/index.html
[linked from http://www.instapundit.com/]
Now, this is funny- but of course it's intended to be serious. But it does mention a good point:
"Chris Lehman makes the same point in the New York Observer, arguing it was a comic mistake for Colbert to fail to break character. "

This probably accurate point made by Lehman, unless of course Colbert isn't anything other than a stick fiqure.