According to Penn, the coverage missed the point.
Except that listeners to BBC Radio 4's long-wave coverage missed the crucial moment, after the station switched to the shipping forecast just before the final wicket fell.
What all that manic round-the-clock coverage missed, however, was that this new chapter in his long story begins with a simple failure of imagination.
Criticism of metro coverage "misses the mark," she said, adding, "What we excel at is surprising readers, online and in print, by breaking big exclusive stories about local crime, politics and city life".
Criticism of Channel 4's coverage misses the point that, when it comes to major events which attract viewers from outside the sport's core audience, people are not switching on and then switching off again in disgust.
Jonathan Chait, a former friend of Mr. Glass who is now a senior editor at the magazine, said that "Shattered Glass" delivered a fundamental insight that much of the coverage missed.
Wendell Jamieson, the metro editor, said that Mr. Berg's complaints about stories that went without coverage missed an important reality: "There are eight million stories in the naked city, and for every one he mentioned that we didn't do, there are dozens of comparable stories, in scope and impact, that we did do".
While the BBC's Olympics coverage missed out, there was a special award for Clare Balding, one of the corporation's main London 2012 presenters, who also anchored the Paralympics on Channel 4. "I'm a little bit embarrassed to be singled out among a wealth of really good broadcasting talent on both Games, but damn pleased it was me," said Balding.
Yes, I thought some of the coverage missed that.
