
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gleick@mas.to ("James Gleick") wrote:
“Why did the NYT play the first story the way it did? We don’t know. They won’t say.
"Why did it play the second story so differently? We don’t know. They won’t say.
“’Don’t ask, don’t tell is one thing. The attitude of our leading journalists boils down to: ‘You can ask. We won’t tell.’
"This is not good enough.”
A tale of two front pages, from James Fallows, our leading media critic.