So many different BTC related sites are coming down at the same time today.  I suspect that it's due to the hype causing people to rush to the websites.  Bitcointalk has been intermittently down as well lately.
I've actually been surprised by the lack of press attention for BTC outside of the business and tech sections.  You'd expect that an event as huge as this would warrant some serious and detailed attention.

What the articles in the main sections seem to be giving is just very basic (and sometimes inaccurate) explanations about what BTC is rather than anything to do with what's actually happening.