Last Sunday, with the Democratic National Convention starting the next day, the anchors on KOA radio were speculating about whether the grass at Mile High Stadium, after being trampled by the Democrats, would be fit for the Broncos' home opener.

I was listening to this and thinking, uh oh, Denver is headed toward a week of media-frenzy hell like we've seen too many times before.

I mean, JonBenet Ramsey, Kobe Bryant, Ward Churchill, the pope. The thought of it all made me want to go to sleep.

But the DNC was, by far, the best media frenzy to hit Denver ever.

For one thing, the breadth of information available, with the large number of events and interesting people in town, was incredible.

And you could pick from so many media outlets to get the information you wanted. From the left (Democracy Now!) to the right (Bill O'Reilly) and everywhere in between, they were in Denver. With all the video, you didn't even have to read anything, even if you were looking at the Web site of a "newspaper."

It was too much fun - and full of surprises, with the strange digital news experiments seemingly being tested in real time.

I know I'm being self-absorbed here, but this media frenzy was also better than the others because it felt like everyone was involved, not just journalists, with hand-held devices, online commentary, on-the-scene interviews. Walking around town in this media-heavy environment was so weird it was hard not to love it.

You had to wonder, though, if this was Denver's media-frenzy apex.

We hit a moment when the traditional media (newspapers, radio and TV) are still going strong. But big changes are coming.

And the new media, like blogs, are hitting their stride, though they may be beyond their most rapid growth period, in terms of news commentary.

If I had to guess, I'd say Denver will never see anything like this, with the mix of traditional and new media entities, again. I hope I'm wrong.

Fox bias. There's an unfortunate tendency for journalists to balance the right-leaning bias of Fox News with the alleged left-leaning leaning bias of another news outlet.

That's what The Denver Post did Aug. 20 in a report describing the DNC operations of Fox and CNN.

The article cited the "perceived political difference" between the two, putting "Fox News on the right; CNN on the left."

Similarly, a Rocky Mountain News editorial Monday implied that National Public Radio is as far to the left as Fox is to the right.

The Rocky stated that it couldn't imagine Democrats banning Fox News or Republicans banning National Public Radio, because "ideological screening of the media is just not something you do in a society that cherishes freedom of the press."

There's lots of credible documentation, on fair.org and elsewhere, that Fox has a conservative bias, and this is widely accepted. But evidence of systemic bias at NPR or CNN is scant - and is certainly not widely perceived among professional journalists.

A better YouTube. Maybe the army of bloggers and YouTubers that just left town inspired you to become a citizen journalist or to be a better one. If so, Denver Open Media, the local public access station, offers reasonably priced video classes. To me, this is an essential role of a public access station - to help citizens develop these skills and support a community of people with the same interest.

More truth. I was glad to read yesterday that the Rocky will continue its DNC "Truth Patrol" feature through the November election. Rocky editor John Temple hadn't decided on the future of the Truth Patrol when I asked him Wednesday if it would be extended. Rocky reporters are evaluating whether political "facts" floating in the sea of media are anchored to the truth. Yesterday, they determined, among other things, that it's "rock solid" that John McCain sided with Bush "90 percent of the time" and that Barack Obama's claim that he will create 5 million "green-collar" jobs is "shaky."

Breslin. It was great to read Jimmy Breslin in the Post. On Sunday, he wrote about an issue that didn't get much attention anywhere else: "Delegates sit in an arena and face the great national weakness, race. At the same time, if we look at our record of carnage in other places and other times, we might think of taking race out of our wars. That could lead to something pretty good: If we don't fight whites, we don't fight anybody."

Breaking party. I appreciated Denver's 7 trying, with cameras rolling Tuesday, to get into a big DNC party and asking politicians how their partying behavior squared with the stringent ban on gifts from lobbyists spelled out in Amendment 41, which was approved by voters.

Jason Salzman, president of Effect Communications, is the author of Making the News: A Guide for Activists and Nonprofits. Reach him at salzmanj@RockyMountainNews.com.