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In a recent oval office meeting, President Bush pleaded with both the executive editor and the publisher of The New York Times not to run the story on NSA wiretaps. Nine days later, the Times published the story anyway. But the paper had decided not to run the same story more than a year ago and a Times source tells The New York Observer that the piece was regarded as dead. So why publish it now?
Turns out, the story’s author, Times reporter James Risen, was set to release a book detailing the NSA program next month, leaving the Times with the choice of publishing the story or being scooped by their own reporter. The Times’ Bill Keller tells the Los Angeles Times the book had nothing to do with it, saying, “We published the story when we did because after much hard work it was fully reported, checked and ready and because we were convinced there was no good reason not to publish it.”
In a recent oval office meeting, President Bush pleaded with both the executive editor and the publisher of The New York Times not to run the story on NSA wiretaps. Nine days later, the Times published the story anyway. But the paper had decided not to run the same story more than a year ago and a Times source tells The New York Observer that the piece was regarded as dead. So why publish it now?
Turns out, the story’s author, Times reporter James Risen, was set to release a book detailing the NSA program next month, leaving the Times with the choice of publishing the story or being scooped by their own reporter. The Times’ Bill Keller tells the Los Angeles Times the book had nothing to do with it, saying, “We published the story when we did because after much hard work it was fully reported, checked and ready and because we were convinced there was no good reason not to publish it.”