Analysis: Strauss-Kahn Charges Dropped Article

When comparing the New York Times article "French Charges Against Strauss-Kahn Dropped" and the Time Magazine article "French Prosecutors Drop Attempted Rape Charge Against DSK" it is clear to see that Time offers blogs as a form of multimedia, seeing as their article is in a blog connected with their website. Both organizations offer multimedia in the forms of photos, videos, text, etc. to report a story.
These varying forms of multimedia complement news stories by providing more information and a different perspective or dynamic to a story with the same information. For example, a picture of a car crash will provide different type of the same information to an audience as a description of the car crash.
The kind of writing that I've seen in alternate forms of media such as an article and a blog seem to be that the article is longer and has more detailed and different information while a blog has more information for a specific angle or seems to be briefer.