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Sat 06 Jun 2009A breakthrough victory for new media?
As news anchors filled time with little information, Twitter gave better value
POOR Farrah Fawcett. Hers was a big death until about noon, LA time on Thursday, when the herds of reporters must have checked their Blackberries, perked up like meerkats and then swept en masse to a story far, far bigger. And at that stage, Michael Jackson was being reported only as having had a heart attack.
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