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This not only ran in the NYT. It ran prominently, as it should have, on the front page.
The FDLers' work highlights something that both Froomkin of the WaPo and Jay Rosen of PressThink and the NYU School of journalism have been saying for some time. Blogging complements traditional journalism. Bloggers can dig deeper, face no deadlines or space constraints and, when widely read and open to comment, are self-correcting.
Bloggers can't easily develop relationships with sources, nor do they have the training and experience of professional journalists. Pachacutec of the FDL team noted this early on in the trial--that these reporters were good at getting down verbatim quotes, but there were other things .
Those things they don't get are frequently things bloggers are good at, like connecting the dots across stories.
