NY Times Explains Page 37 Coverage of JFK Terror Plot
While most of the rest of the news media treated the JFK bombing plot that was busted last week as page 1 news, The New York Times buried it on page 30. What was their agenda? I say it is clearly part of minimizing the realities and dangers we face in the war on terror.
Talk to the Newsroom:
National Editor Suzanne Daley
Suzanne Daley, The Times's national editor, is answering reader questions June 4 through 8, 2007.
The J.F.K. Airport Bomb Plot
Q. I live in California and was astounded yesterday to look at my print edition of The Times for the article on the J.F.K. bomb plot and to find it back on page A30!
What has happened with the news judgment of your colleagues? A terrorist plot that could have badly damaged the entire economy of the nation, including those of us who live in the Bay Area, and it's relegated to the level of bridge club reports. You might wish to suggest to your editors that your readers do not live in a vacuum, that we do have alternative sources for news and they only make The Times look foolish with such ineptitude. No wonder your circulation and advertising are falling; your editors are turning a once-honored newspaper into a dinosaur in the electronic age.
-- Richard Godfrey, San Francisco
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/04/business/media/04asktheeditors.html
