Great followup analysis in the Daily Standard examing how major news services bungled Easongate by ignoring the CNN executive’s comments until it was too late:
The controversy seemed about to fade off the media’s radar screens altogether–until Jordan suddenly resigned his position at CNN around 6:00 p.m. on Friday, February 11.
The announcement sent the national media into a scramble. Excepting the Washington Post and the New York Times, almost no national news outlet had ever covered the story, which put them in the uncomfortable position of announcing the resignation of a major news executive over a two-week-old scandal about which they had not bothered to report.
(Hat tip: Journalism.org)
