A few observations:

• CNN had free access to a live stream. Their video player allows access to four different streams: Main, weather in voting areas and two others (had shifted -- Clinton HQ, Huckabee HQ, L.A. voting stn. etc.)
• MSNBC had downloadable widgets for political junkies: A leaderboard and candidate/issue matrix. There was a host of services that would host it, but alas, not Blogware. There didn't seem to be an easy way to add it to Google Desktop either, just iGoogle.
• I find myself gravitating to the leader board on the NYT home page. If only it wouldn't crash my browser. :) I eventually launched Firefox just for nyt.com.
• I shouldn't sell washingtonpost.com short. Its interactive maps are much slicker than CNN.com's offerings. I'm not so crazy about CNN's overall home page.
• ABCNews.com allows you to pick the states you want to watch.
• MSNBC only gave up the top screen and change to the primary, then got you back into other news.
• Washingtonpost.com had live video of its own in-family experts (Bob Woodward, Newsweek's Jon Meacham etc.)
• wp.com also was janey-on-the-spot with e-mail alerts about major developments.

The increasing pressure to fill space in decreasing amounts of time has diluted journalism, claims Brit Nick Davies, author of Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media.

From the Globe and Mail editorial:

Visiting Kabul last May, Stephen Harper spoke eloquently of the noble aims behind Canada's mission. "We are not daunted by shadows because we carry the light that defines them -- the light of freedom and democracy, of human rights and the rule of law," the Prime Minister told Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

Upon learning of the case of Sayad Parwez Kambaksh, however, some Canadians might reasonably question just how bright that light is shining -- not for lack of effort on the part of Canadian troops, but for a dubious commitment to freedom and democracy on the part of Afghan authorities. ...

NDP Leader Jack Layton has suggested he will ask Parliament to condemn the sentence and call on Mr. Karzai to intervene. That's a good start. But it is ultimately up to Mr. Harper to convey to the Afghan President that if Canada is to continue fighting for Afghans' rights, their own government must do its part as well. No country that would put to death a young man like Mr. Kambaksh can be said to be emerging from the shadows.

From AP via CTV.ca:

President Hamid Karzai is concerned about a death sentence handed down to a journalist in Afghanistan accused of insulting Islam, but he will not intervene until the courts have their final say, his spokesman said Tuesday. ...

The journalist, 23-year-old Sayed Parwez Kaambakhsh, was sentenced to death on Jan. 22 by a three-judge panel in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif for distributing a report he printed off the Internet to journalism students at Balkh University.

The article asked why under Islam men can have four wives but women cannot have multiple husbands. ...

"There is a judicial process ongoing," said Humayun Hamidzada, the spokesman for Karzai. "Of course the president is concerned. We are watching the situation very closely."

The government will act only after the courts make their final decision, Hamidzada told a news conference. Any action will be in line with the Afghan constitution, international obligations and respect for human rights, he said.