New Yorker | Romenesko Letters
"What’s more," writes
David Remnick, "it knows that over the decades papers like the [New York] Times have kept many stories and countless particulars secret when editors saw that it was in the interest of national security and military safety to do so. The Times banking story disclosed no leads, named no targets. To say that it risked lives is like saying that an article revealing that cops tap phones to monitor the activities of the Mafia is a gift to the Five Families of New York." || Related
letter from
Stephen D. Burgard.
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"This sometimes bitter crossfire between the government and the press is not a bad thing," writes Time managing editor
Richard Stengel.
(Time)
