Romenesko

National Journal
Blogs and gossip mags are scooping big papers on the Mel Gibson and Suri stories, notes William Powers. "In one way, this is all kind of embarrassing for the papers," he writes. "Surely the Los Angeles Times, with its legion of highly trained reporters, should have been able to get the suppressed [Gibson] police report before some upstart Web operation. And if millions of young celeb-watchers are consumed by the Suri question, silly as that may be, shouldn't the broadsheets at least try to figure out why?"