The Casey watch was an intense scurrying of her every move, from the second she was spotted by embedded photojournalists walking briskly out of the Orange County Jail lobby with her lawyer, Jose Baez, and a waiting SUV, in all about 10 seconds. Casey's release was tailor-made for electronic media -- TV and Internet newspapers -- while print newspapers had to hope and pray to get something, if they indeed, held the presses.
The Anthony coverage is intense, minute-by-minute coverage and print newspapers can't get the news out fast enough, except through their online sites, which cost the reader nothing.
Imagine what the front page of your Daytona Beach News-Journal is going to look like, if you subscribe. Or your Orlando Sentinel. The Sentinel's website, however, is power packed with the latest on the Casey Watch. This is their story, their turf.
With that said, the pressure was on them to produce fast-paced news.
TV news benefits, especially cable news outlets like HLN, the sister network to CNN, which has had daily blow-by-blow coverage around the clock.
No doubt, this is a national story and a Central Florida story. But as the sun rises Sunday, our focus will switch to a local story that has strong implications for Volusia County and that's the growing scandal in Oak Hill with its crumbling police force and how the situation is being handled by city officials.