NYT justifies ‘withholding Davis’ CIA link information at Obama administration’s plea’

[jakeXT]

Washington, Feb 27(ANI): The New York Times as well as some other US newspapers had ‘withheld information’ about double murder-accused Raymond Davis’ ties to the Central Intelligence Agency “at the request of the Obama administration,” misleading their readers and also damaging their credibility in the process.

“The New York Times had agreed to temporarily withhold information about Mr. Davis’s ties to the agency at the request of the Obama administration, which argued that disclosure of his specific job would put his life at risk. Several foreign news organizations have disclosed some aspects of Mr. Davis’s work with the CIA,” admitted the paper in its story on Monday after “American officials lifted their request to withhold publication.”

In his bid to justify this, the paper’s public editor Arthur Brisbane put forward his explanation by saying: “As profoundly unpalatable as it is, I think the Times did the only thing it could do.”

“Agreeing to the State Department’s request was a decision bound to bring down an avalanche of criticism and, even worse, impose serious constraints on The Times’s journalism. The alternative, though, was to take the risk that reporting the C.I.A. connection would, as warned, lead to Mr. Davis’s death,” he added.
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/south-asia/nyt-justifies-withholding-davis-cia-link-information-at-obama-administrations-plea_100507806.html


Is the NYT always consulting the White House ?

Public editor: NYT was right to withhold CIA link
http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/0211/Public_editor_NYT_was_right_to_withhold_CIA_link.html

[DCKit]

1. "Diplomat" my ass. nt