I would say that the big Washington Post story on Kerry and the Rassman-Mekong Delta events that led to his Silver Star, with a big full-page map, was the media "blinking."
-PJ
It was. It was one of the first instances where they had to react to us - and they played catch-up the entire time, except for the group that thought it sufficient to merely follow the lead of the NY Times and declare the Swifties to be liars without actually bothering to prove such.
But the MSM, for the most part, was hardly involved in this story. And then they all woke up Saturday morning and saw that a big fish had resigned. It all went down with nary a peep from the MSMers. And that is a monumental change in the relationship - and not just with the MSM, but with all large media outlets. The panelists on Fox News Sunday, the Wall Street Journal and even Joe Farah over at WND have tried to downplay this using various methods. But the reality stands. The hounds of the blogsphere did not require the MSM to come along and pull the final trigger - the hounds brought down the the big prey by themselves. And the MSM riders on their fine horses are looking at that pack of hounds and wondering if they could pull them off their horses as well - and getting a cold feeling down by their saddles.