It’s kind of sad but not surprising that many mainstream media reporters and most definitely their editors still cannot factor the blogosphere into a major breaking story like Saddam’s Sayonara.
An example is Alessandra Stanley’s “TV Watch” column in the Sunday New York Times on the pre-execution death watch by the cable news channels and networks and then the scramble to broadcast Iraqi TV footage when the trap door opened under the Terror of Tikrit.
No mention that blogs were all over the story in ways that CNN and their ilk were not. Stanley seems so oblivious to the blogosphere that her piece reads like it could have be written five or 10 years ago. Just change the news event to fit the time.