And for this you get a Pulitzer Prize? Puh-leeze.

[kpete]

In 2006, the New York Times won the Pulitzer Prize for exposing Bush’s illegal NSA spying program.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/.....statement/

The Times held this story for 14 months through the 2004 Presidential elections and then it only published because Lichtblau found out that Risen was going to put it in a book he was writing.

On August 13, 2006, the Times Public Editor Byron Calame re-examined Keller’s rationale for holding the story in light of rumors in the LA Times and the New York Observer that the story had been held prior to the 2004 Presidential election.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08.....ubed.html?

Holding a fresh draft of the story just days before the election also was an issue of fairness, Mr. Keller said. I agree that candidates affected by a negative article deserve to have time — several days to a week — to get their response disseminated before voters head to the polls.

So why did the Dec. 16 article say The Times had “delayed publication for a year,” specifically ruling out the possibility that the story had been held prior to the Nov. 2 election? “It was probably inelegant wording,” Mr. Keller said, who added later, “I don’t know what was in my head at the time.”

Were the wording and the sensitivity of the election-day timing issue discussed internally? “I don’t remember,” Mr. Keller said in an interview.

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And for this you get a Pulitzer Prize? Puh-leeze.

[zbdent]

1. remember, the New York Times is liberal and hates America and

wants to see America go down in flames ...