Meanwhile, the Globe wrote yesterday in its editorial on the matter "a distracting political incident on Twitter speaks more about a social medium that feeds on easy outrage than it does about the real issues in this election."

But the Globe ran a number of news articles, produced an editorial and now published an op ed. As a Twitter event, it is past history. No so the Globe.

So Globe editors consider what regurgitating, elongating and over-analyzing a Twitter incident says about the traditional media and, particularly, the Globe?