A website, named FIREDOGLAKE, provided more comprehensive coverage of the Libby trial than any MSM outlet.

TRUE.

In fact, MSM outlets credited FireDoglake as a good source for some of their coverage. The NYT did a cover story on FDLs efforts.

FDL's team included some extremely knowledgable and well prepared analysts. Hamsher, always the producer (some say a Natural Born Killer) is the person who put the team together. The team included lawyers, a prosecutor, an Phd author with whom I would match anyone's Plame investigation knowledge, except team Fitz, and more. FDL patrons, in the comments section, posted their questions and the FDL team did their best to address them. It was interactive live-blogging at its best and the coverage was thorough.

Others that provided substantive coverage include Shuster os MSNBC, The NewsHour, Nina Totenberg at NPR.

Outlets that provided confusing, incomplete and disjointed coverage of the trial include CBS, ABC, FOX.

Take a quiz on your Plame knowledge:

1. Plame's status at the CIA was CLASSIFIED. T/F

2. Cheney and Libby discussed disclosing Plame's idenntity to the press before Libby allegedly learned Plame's identity from Russert. T/F

3. Liiby claims to have leaned of Plame's identity from Cheney, forgotten it, forgotten the conversations in which he discussed Plame with seven different people including government collegues and newspaper reporters, and then, when allegedly told about Plame by Russert, learned it as if it were new. T/F

4. Libby is being charged with lying to FBI investigators, committing perjury in front of the grand jury and obstruction of justice. T/F

5. Evidence from the trial make its clear the Cheney was directing Libby and the response of others in the OVP throughout the sordid affair. T/F

Answer, T,T,T,T,T

While I agree with this overall premise proposed by Mr. Greenwald, I was puzzled by one supposedly prominent example to justify it:

"Recognition of FDL's superior coverage has been seeping slowly into the press. As I noted previously, Time's Ana Marie Cox surprisingly acknowledged (while linking to FDL) that some of the most astute and insightful reporting on the Libby trial is coming from the blogosphere."

While "seeping" and "surprisingly" are undeniably appropriate terms for most journalists, neither are true in relation to Ana Marie Cox. As the former full time Wonkette blogger cum full time Washington correspondent for Time Magazine, it is not surprising at all that she recognize the superior contributions of FireDogLake to the Libby reporting .

To fertilize the water analogy, I would propose that Ms. Cox represents a fresh wild salmon who has jumped the locks, and is now breaking down the dam between the old and new schools of media. And I might add that this is a welcome change to her genetically modified and ethically challenged counterpart, Jake Tapper.