MSNBC First With Judy-Out-Of-Jail News

MSNBC owned Judith Miller‘s release from jail on Thursday night. NBC’s Pete Williams broke the news on Hardball at 7:54pm. The AP didn’t confirm the news for half an hour, and CNN didn’t report it until the second half of Paula Zahn Now. NYTimes.com didn’t post the news until 8:45pm. An e-mailer calls it “a big, big win on MSNBC…”

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