This is Twitter's CNN Moment. What Was MSM Doing?

We learned Sunday night that the journalistic codes of mainstream television news don’t work anymore. NBC was the first to break into programming (ironically Celebrity Apprentice) with the news that President Obama was going to speak at 10:30 pm, but would not speculate what he was going to address. The Obama speech kept being pushed back, so all the anchors had plenty of time to vamp. But for at least twenty minutes the networks would not fess up to the reason for this highly unusual message from the East Room. Wolf Blitzer on CNN teased with the audience saying that it was not about Libya, but dealt with national security. You got a sense that he and everyone in power knew, but were not telling; TV viewers had to wait unlike their digital counterparts. Obviously the Beltway insiders were texting each other, but could not break the story to the general public. Even after Keith Urbahn’s tweet heard around the world at 10:25 pm, the networks were still coy about what was up. They would not inform the public without an okay from the government. David Gregory, George Stephanopoulos, or Wolf didn’t go there until most of their audience read the tweets or just figured it out themselves. That tacit agreement between the anchors and the White House about when things can be revealed doesn’t work anymore now that everyone can become their own anchor.