Online journalism has redefined breaking news. Just when we thought that watching on t.v. the pyrotechnical display in the skies over Desert Storm was awesome, very recently, we found out who the winner of American Idol was even before he won it!

Yes, it is a race to the rating, but credibility is an issue for and in all formats.

Also, it is the media itself (all formats) that sway readership and viewership because what it makes more prevalent is what readers and viewers will receive more. Supply and demand.

So maybe, just maybe, we know more about whether the Jolie-Pitt twins have already been born or not rather than the latest mortality rate in Darfur because the former is what we see and read more often than the latter (across all formats).