Friday, August 12, 2005

CNN better than NYTimes!

Today I saw an article in the Times entitled City Releases Thousands of Oral Histories of 9/11 Attacks. I assumed that this article would highlight some aspects of the dialog on the tapes, or maybe the story would cover the firefighters and their families' reactions to listening to the tapes and what their loved ones had said on 9/11. Instead, the Times' 16 paragraph story had six paragraphs covering the tapes that were released and ten paragraphs covering the valiant efforts of the Times' to get those tapes released. I happened to be watching CNN at the time, which covered the reaction of the release of the tapes with a number of excerpts played as well. CNN mentioned that it was the Times' legal battle that brought the tapes out of the classified drawer, but refrained from, as the Times could not, covering their own coverage of the story.

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