John Gruber of Daring Fireball has been following extensively the whole Steve Jobs liver transplant debacle. There’s been some weirdness going on in terms on how The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times have been source quoting, or lack thereof, of Apple’s CEO medical condition.
This whole Jobs liver transplant story really hits the sweet spot for two of my obsessions: Apple (duh) and journalism. It’s the journalism angle that I find the most intriguing. The Wall Street Journal’s story Friday night was a huge scoop for them, and I noted in my analysis of it that The New York Times, when they finally ran their first story with the news one day later, clearly could not find a source of their own, attributing the information only to the Journal’s original report. If you know anything at all about the culture of premier news organizations like the Journal and Times, you know how that hurt the Times.
