July 10, 2006

Blogs vs Mainstream Media

Like so many others watching the World Cup final last night I wondered what made Zinedine Zidane so extremely angry so he head butted Italy’s Materazzi.

Cuchulainn at The Bewilderness has come up with some interesting findings while doing some search on both Google news and in the blogsphere.
As can be clearly seen in the BBC video stream entitled "Highlights: Italy 1-1 France (Ita win 5-3 on pens)" Materazzi pinches and twists Zidane's left nipple 13 seconds before the headbutt. The incident is clearly caught on camera in the stream last night on television. This video doesn't actually show the pinch, but does show Zidane twisting as Materazzi pulls on him.

Today, as I write, a Google blog search for "Zidane nipple Materazzi" returns 40 blog posts. A Google news search for the same text returns a single story from the Belfast Telegraph. This seems to me to be a textbook case of the Blogosphere picking something that MSM groupthink has missed/ignored.

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