Monday, November 26, 2007

washingtonpost.com When Washington (D.C.) Redskins safety Sean Taylor was shot earlier today, washingtonpost.com's Redskins Insider blog was on the story.

(UPDATE Nov. 27: Sean Taylor has died.) The Vice President of the United States may have been at George Washington University Hospital Monday afternoon for further evaluation of an irregular heartbeat, but THE story in the Metro D.C. area all day was the shooting of Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor during a robbery attempt at his Florida home earlier in the day. Taylor was hospitalized in critical condition, according to the story in the Washington Post.

But the best, most up-to-date coverage of the story has been in Jason LaCanfora's Redskins Insider blog. LaCanfora first reported on the shooting at 11:01 a.m. ET. Since then, LaCanfora has updated the blog 11 times in seven hours. The Post didn't issue a bulletin until 12:24 p.m., nearly 90 minutes later. The first Associated Press report on the shooting I could find had a date time of 10:43 a.m. ET.

LaCanfora's latest entry, 6:49 p.m., A Positive Sign, reads: "Les Carpenter, who is working the story for us in Miami, heard rumblings that Sean may have opened his eyes. I have not been able to get that confirmed but just heard from a team official that Sean is now responsive, which is obviously a turn for the best. I will continue working away to get more details, but this is obviously a turn for the better after Sean spent much of the day in a 'non-responsive and unconscious' state. "

The Vice President Cheney story, by the way, was the lead story on the 7 p.m. "Nightly News with Brian Williams" on NBC.

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