Has the meta news cycle already run its course on Osama? Yes. It’s this post
Nothing in my experience suggest that a major news story must be accompanied by some equally major turning point in the creation and dissemination of news. But such is the race to go meta that it even rivals the race to break news. Witness: A post Monday morning that throws water on all of the people clamoring to crown Twitter and social media as the new kings of all things news. It had been less than 12 hours since we had found out that Osama Bin Laden was dead and already we had reached the backlash of the backlash. Crazy!
(Wait. OMG, what the fuck does that make this post? Holy shit. I’m feeling a little nauseated now, but it’s too late to turn back now. The momentum of the meta is too much to resist. Save yourself!)
Is the death of Osama Bin Laden a litmus test on the current state of news? Yes. Does it just feel like my patience for that kind of story is going to be a little bit less this time around? Definitely, yes. That being said, some smart things do get written. My vote this morning goes to Capital New York.
I heard it from my little pocket computer, via Twitter, and as the continuously updated mass consciousness streamed at me, I thought, not for the first time, that it was a blessing that we did not have this technology 10 years ago.
—Andrew Rice, “War Against Bin Laden Ends Not With a Bang, But a Twitter,” Capital New York
And here I’ll make a bit of a pitch for print against an old enemy to which it used to be compared but isn’t much anymore: cable news. I don’t think television can offer these kinds of sustained narratives outside of documentary-news shows
—Tom McGeveran, “The Second Draft of the Killing of Osama Bin Laden,” Capital New York
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