Romenesko

New York Sun
Newspapers had to scramble to get material from DOJ documents on the US Attorneys firings into their Tuesday editions. Meanwhile, tpmmuckraker.com put up its first post about the records at 1:04 a.m. By 4:30 a.m., more than 220 postings were up detailing various aspects of the files. Josh Gerstein writes the "time-honored Washington practice of trying to extinguish, pre-empt, or redirect news coverage by dumping stacks of previously secret government documents on the press may be in for some changes" with bloggers at work.