Relief from the CNN cycle?

Interesting take from Independent.co.uk on how by linking to stories in reverse chron, Google is rewarding those who come late to the story and punishing those who breat the "exclusive." We all know that news changed dramatically with CNN brought news cycles from daily to up to the minute. Perhaps news aggregators and blogs will actually serve as a counter-weight to this trend. Ironically perhaps that as media becomes ever more instant, the premium on the scoop may actually be diminishing--and punishment for getting it wrong (e.g. Rathergate) is getting more severe and rapid. Perhaps aggregators and blogs will shift the balance back a bit from time based to quality based reporting. We'll see. Excerpt:

But in the case of what starts out as an exclusive story, such as Abu Ghraib, the most recently updated site won't be the one which got the exclusive. It'll be the me-too site, probably reporting what's on the newswires, and adding it (perhaps automatically via a computer) to its site. The organisation that got the exclusive languishes, perversely, at the bottom of Google's huge list, in a place where nobody is ever likely to "click through" to it to see the adverts there.