The Web and the traditional media seem, fitfully, to be settling on a division of labor: The major media will focus on celebrity scandals and bloggers will focus on things that actually matter.
-- Allysia Finley
Wall Street Journal
Ms. Finley noted that in the two weeks after Climategate broke, emails casting doubt on global warming were the subject of exactly
four stories on the morning and evening news shows of NBC, ABC and CBS. However, she continued, over the same period the network shows aired 62 stories on Tiger Woods' auto accident and rumored infidelities.
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