Brown gave a conference, nobody came

Is indifference a good thing or a bad thing for Gordon Brown at this stage of the electoral cycle? We ask because two media strongholds which could be expected to be interested in the fact that the governing party held a conference over the weekend - the lefty Guardian, and the secretly-lefty-but-we-can't-talk-about-it Today programme - seem strangely reluctant to talk about it.

Go to politics.guardian.co.uk, and the only mention of the conference on the first screen is a reference to the simmering row with unions over agency workers (lower down the page, you can find Jackie Ashley's column, which says "the media aren't interested," interestingly). And in the headlines for Today this morning, there was nothing, despite this being the first opportunity for that august broadcast to discuss Brown's Saturday speech.

Functionally, the media is ignoring Brown this morning. The way things have been going, that may be a good thing.