1. This is tangential to the main issues, but I did appreciate the digression in @benyt's piece about the late Abe Rosenthal. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/business/media/new-york-times-washington-post-protests.html …
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6. Further to Abe Rosenthal as the great gatekeeper of the Times in the 1960s-1980s, it's worth remembering the story of how the Times in that era bungled the Watergate scandal. It's a story told in a biography of Rosenthalpic.twitter.com/LQM2vinNxI
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7. Max Frankel, the Times' chief Washington correspondent when Watergate happened, handled the story by going to Kissinger, who told him there was nothing there. So Frankel left it alone.pic.twitter.com/3nf3DDcGRY
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8. You might think that missing the biggest scandal in USA history because you trusted an obviously interested source would hurt your career. But Frankel in fact did what the Times expected of him. And he was rewarded for it. Eventually became executive editor
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They've all been scanned on google books! Easy to find!
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The kicker. “His enemies are too pleased, his friends are too frightened” hmm sounds like a certain President
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A certain President that SPY magazine also had an epic beef with.
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We need "Spy" again.
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I always wondered how NYT missed the Watergate story so badly. The story is told in Rosenthal's biography. Nixon sent a man to talk to Rosenthal about the story. The man was a former school chum and former colleague of Rosenthal's; same background, breeding, perspective.
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The man said, "Abe, there's no story here. Anyone who says so will look foolish." Based on his friend's advice - knowing he was sent by Nixon - Rosenthal declined to assign anyone to it. R. expressed remorse, not because he missed the story but because his friend betrayed him.
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