Several interesting and relevant notes:
1. The story was broken by a traditional reporter (Danny Hakim of the New York Times) but online at nytimes.com, where it was continuously updated.
2. The steady but somewhat slow drip of details -- how much he spent, what he wanted to do, how the investigation started, whether he would resign -- have made the Web the best source of information. For instance, we all learned that his resignation plans were final this morning via either the Web or TV.
3. Many of those details were contained in the affidavit related to the investigation of the ring, which we were all able to read because it was posted online as a PDF on many many sites, even on nytimes.com.
4. All that said, a very popular online game has been speculating about the print headlines that the New York tabloids would use, or trying to come up with better ones. Why is it, I wonder, that the Post and Daily News save their best puns for the print editions?
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