Oct 1 2008; 3:30 PM
September Summary - One topic dominated - No - not Palin!
Debate changed from "what is real news" to what parts of the news story qualified as "Breaking News".

September was the first month where the feedback and comments to this site were not focused on the usual broad arguments and challenges of trying to define real news. All the sources we cover gave the Wall Street crisis, and by extension the economic crisis, the kind of coverage that most of our readers seemed to think the story warranted.

For those of you keeping track it was The New York Times (no surprise) that sent out the most alerts in September about the economic crisis.

To check or compare how the story was covered simply click on the individual source in the top right corner of our page to see a complete list of all alerts as sent out, in order, from each of the news services we cover.

Bring on October.......
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bobby: Oct 2 2008, 8:35 PM
Looks like Smith was right. I just got an e-mail from CBS that is simply an ad for their upcoming coverage of the VP debate. That's not news , let alone breaking news.


Yankees: Oct 2 2008, 5:52 PM
"Bloomberg Says He Would Run Again if Law Changed" - as Breaking News - you have to be kidding. NYT - this is not breaking news - even to us New Yorkers


smithJ: Oct 2 2008, 11:19 AM
A debate tonight. So starting an hour before we get alerts telling us there is a debate coming and to watch it live. Not a breaking news alert - that's an ad


Peter F: Oct 2 2008, 9:57 AM
betcha tonights alerts will all be about Palin


marie1: Oct 1 2008, 9:55 PM
Senate vs house & the alerts are still coming. Compare this coverage to Fridays house vote coverage - then comment....


Dale R: Oct 1 2008, 9:45 PM
So much coverage - and so many e mails about the first bail out bill and yet the second one just passed and so far seems to be getting little coverage. What's going on? Why is the one that failed bigger news than the one that passed


DanM: Oct 1 2008, 6:36 PM
I see that as of 6:00pm here on the east coast that there have been no economy related alerts. Thank God - I was getting a little tired of the beeping from my Blackberry telling me how much money I was losing. Maybe we all need some soft news for a couple of days.


Dancer: Oct 1 2008, 4:11 PM
There were other stories in September that we should not forget. Hurricaines, Political conventions etc that all got "breaking news" coverage.


peebo: Oct 1 2008, 3:43 PM
Looks like you got your wish - back to the regular debate. I just got an alert from CNN that "items" belonging to an old dead millionaire flyboy who dissapeared months ago have been found. Whoope ....


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