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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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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My favourite bit from that book is how he contrived, as a reporter, to get a dateline that read AT THE KHYBER PASS. It involved a 1,500-mile round trip and unlimited reserves of hubris.
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No argument there. I will point out Rosenthal strongly pushed for publication of the Pentagon Papers, and publication of them verbatim. Several Times editors considered paraphrasing the documents or not publishing them at all, which Rosenthal correctly said would be a disaster.
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