Howard Kurtz’s run-down is useful. It’s going to be pretty wild to see how some major news outlets which never mentioned the story in the first place must now explain why Jordan resigned.

I also think this illustrates something very significant about the comparative successes of the Leftwing bloggers and the rightwing bloggers. The righty blogs have taken down Dan Rather and Eason Jordan. That is big game. The lefty blogs got this Talon news guy. I don’t think this has anything to do with the skills on one side or the other. Give the lefty side credit, they’re smart and they’re tenacious. They’re just as good at digging up old quotes, finding inconsistencies etc. as the guys on the right. In some cases they may even be better. So at that level there’s really no difference. But when it comes to going after the mainstream media they really don’t have the taste for it. Why is that? Well, the obvious reason is that they don’t particularly disagree with the stuff the Dan Rathers and Eason Jordans say or do. Sure they may tear apart a bad poll or criticize a quote out of context if it suits their purposes. But at the end of the day, at the macro level, the fact is that the lefty bloggers and the Mainstream Media are on the same side of things. That is an important distinction which will drive the story of the blogs versus the MSM for years to come.

Update Tim Karr has more. Though in fairness, I was late on this story and really shouldn’t be counted as one of the folks who brought Jordan down — as much as I would like to be.