With Saddam Hussein having already posted his farewell letter on the Internet, there's nothing left to do but kill him. But how – in this era of all things YouTube and the posting of insurgent murder videos all over BitTorrent, or something – are the media going to treat the assassination of this year's most hated man?

The execution could take place as early as today – Iraqi officials say they want Saddam hanged before a Muslim holiday begins on Sunday – which means John Reiss and his like rushed to reach policy decisions about what, if anything, they'll be showing American audiences. You know, 'cause the whole thing is going to be videotaped.

ABC and CBS said they wouldn't air the full execution if the video became available and might not air anything or show a brief, nongraphic portion. NBC and ABC plan to break into regular programming to announce that Saddam's sentence had been carried out. NBC News said it still was discussing what it would do, but it's clear it also won't run graphic footage.

Or, in a more likely scenario, the video clips will make their way to blogs, which will have a field day with the gruesome content, attract scores of new readers, and in the days and weeks to come the networks will have no choice but to show more graphic details of the execution. All in the name of meta media coverage of this whole blog phenomenon, of course.