How the Bin Laden Announcement Leaked in the Media

The news that Osama Bin Laden was killed – a huge story – was leaked via Twitter. Members of the media were collecting themselves and Obama was still writing his speech when Keith Urbahn, a former Chief of Staff for Donald Rumsfeld, tweeted “So I’m told by a reputable person they have killed Osama Bin Laden. Hot damn.” This was at 10:25 pm, and according to The New York Times, the news began to spread quickly:

ABC, CBS and NBC interrupted programming across the country at almost the same minute, 10:45 p.m.,