Yesterday's Columbia tragedy was a high point for the Internet, and especially the blogging community. From the earliest point sites like scripting news relayed a great deal of information, some from major news outlets, but also a lot of informed speculation and commentary from bloggers.
And I continue to find wonderful commentary like there is no cat's entry.
When I was in the newspaper business, we often would say that stories like this are a "TV story" - by the time we came out, there was not a great deal to write that was relevant, or would be by the time the paper came out.
But yesterday the Net came up with a lot of information I didn't see on TV.
Oddly, the Internet is not really so much competition for traditional media, but a superset - everyone contributes their own skills, background and point of view.