Well, at least they're doing that. But there's still no explanation on their site, blog, Twitter, or Facebook, and it's after 8 AM on Monday in London.
Expect this to start hitting the financial press in London in the next hour or two.
I think you overestimate Bitcoin's media profile. FT Alphaville is just mentioning yesterday's crash. Apart from that, only the Bitcoin press and fragments of the tech press (Wired, TechCrunch) have mentioned Bitstamp.
edit: whoops, added to the FT Alphaville article! http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/01/05/2079012/who-needs-cave... Come in via Google News for full text. They're using it as one example in a piece on how Bitcoin's infrastructures and the community's ability to assess expertise are not very good.
Two days later, it's in the Economist, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, etc.
Mt. Gox underestimated Bitcoin's media profile. When they went down, they acted as if the event would mostly be ignored and they could quietly get away with it. Instead, they got coverage in just about major business newspaper worldwide: WSJ, NYT, Forbes, South China Morning Post, China Daily, even al-Jazeera and Russia Today.
Bitstamp seems to be dead. They said they'd be down for "24-48 hours". Two days later they're still down. They haven't issued any new statements. There's a good chance they're in "take the money and run" mode.
Wonder what Bitpay are going to do, since their "aggregate price" turns out to have long closely tracked ... Bitstamp. How in the bag are they? Did they in fact cash out daily?
Expect this to start hitting the financial press in London in the next hour or two.