CATFIGHT!!!!! WSJ vs NY Times

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Sulzberger Responds to 'WSJ' Editorial Slamming the 'NYT'


By E&P Staff

Published: June 30, 2006 12:30 PM ET

NEW YORK After remaining mum for the past week, even as controversy swirled around newspapers' revealing the banking records surveillance program, the Wall Street Journal editoral page weighed in today. Although the Journal published its own story just hours after The New York Times -- which has taken the most heat -- its editorial defended its own action while blasting the Times.

It even included a personal slam at Times' publisher, Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr. and said the Times did not want to win, but rather obstruct, the war on terror.

Sulzberger responded this afternoon: "I know many of the reporters and editors at The Wall Street Journal and have greater faith in their journalistic excellence than does the Editorial Page of their own paper. I, for one, do not believe they were unaware of the importance of what they were publishing nor oblivious to the impact such a story would have."

Among other things, the Journal editorial criticized the Times for using the Journal as "its ideological wingman" to deflect criticism from the right. It pointed out that the news and editorial departments are quite separate at the Journal, and the editorial side there would have opposed printing the article the kind of article the Times ran.

Finally, it explained how it got its own story, then slammed the Times for a wide range of sins, claiming that the "current political clamor" is "warning to the press about the path the Times is walking."

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002764884

and leads the charge against the free press.

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They're just mad that they got scooped.

:rofl:

I wonder if the Bushkovites have written their own death warrant by "swift-boating" the Times.

How many last straws must break before we can ITMFA?