We had the WWDC keynote, which included news of This Years Model: iPhone. We also had the release of the iPhone.
So there were articles about predictions, articles about leaks, articles about why the prediction and leaks were nuts, articles about which predictions and leaks were plausible.
We had liveblogs. We had deadblogs. We had linkbaitblogs and usual casts saying "Apple awesome," "Apple evil," and "My fellow commenters are idiots and/or shills." To date, I haven't seen any "Apple is the new Nokia" arguments. Go figure.
We had the legions of Apple's marketing forces pumping content into the system. We had the legions of non-Apple's marketing forces dismissing the iPhone and promoting their phone/carrier/operating system, some of which were going to be totally awesome when they arrive next month, next quarter, next year, with almost exactly the features and functionality we are showing, via animation.
Then we had articles about the impending release.
Then we had articles about the Apple Store situation around the country on the day of release.
We had iPhone release reviews.
We had an Apple press release about how many phones were sold in the first weekend. We had posts that said the numbers were crazy and Apple are liars.
(We note that iPhones, as a popular consumer device, and Apple's success as a company mean Apple news goes mainstream media, i.e., jumps from the tech or business pages.)
Oh yeah. Apple and Flash, Flash, Flash.
And then, during the last three days of the month, news of the antenna and face-proximity bugs appeared.
Phew. Talk about sucking all the oxygen out of the media.
But the implication above - and I apologize, I'm not checking whether it was source or summary - that plurality of column-inches, to use a quaint measure, is entirety of attention is not particularly valid. People have deadlines and have space to fill and need to attract the attention of Billy and Betty Webnewssumer, so things are skewed to what the new outlets think drives those herds.