This is an article about the time lag between TPM's first post about the US Attorney story and the nearly two months before the network news broadcasted their first segment about the story. The article gives a fairly detailed timeline. The article also talks about a similar lag that occurred with the reporting of the Walter Reed Medical Center scandal, which first broke on Salon.com, where it slowly percolated its way to the Times/Post frontpages and finally the Evening News shows.
It mainly posits that the reasons for the time lag are many: the network news leans on the Washington Post and New York Times for their news agenda and also that it took some time for their to be "footage" (namely the Senate hearings, Bush's statement, Gonzalez's apology) for the shows to properly "frame" the story for broadcast.
Read the article here.
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One of the fastest media outlets to pick up this story?
Me. Anyone who talked to me a few weeks ago heard about it whether they wanted to or not.
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