Who's holding the spotlight? (Score 5, Informative)

"In 2004, it took barely an hour before the explosive photos from an Iraqi prison were seen all over the world."
From an article in the Sydney Morning Herald,

"For two weeks before 60 Minutes in America broke the torture story, it obeyed requests from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard Myers not to run it for fear it would harm American interests in Iraq. The network ran it only after learning that other journalists would tell the story if it didn't.

(see http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/08/10839114 61425.html)

In this case, it was relatively "instant" only once the news was ALLOWED to be let out of the bag.