Posted on 06/07/2007 5:56:59 AM PDT by FreedomPoster
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 . . . A. Here's the basic thinking on the J.F.K. story: In the years since 9/11, there have been quite a few interrupted terrorist plots. It now seems possible to exercise some judgment about their gravity. Not all plots are the same. In this case, law enforcement officials said that J.F.K. was never in immediate danger. The plotters had yet to lay out plans. They had no financing. Nor did they have any explosives. It is with all that in mind, that the editors in charge this weekend did not put this story on the front page.
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(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Because the NY Times already knew everything there was to know about this plot, very quickly, they determined it wasn't important.
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Stockholders of NYT must be so proud.
The fact that they feel it necessary to defend the placement of the article shows me they know they screwed up.
Post #2 is on the wrong thread. It’s what happens when I have two windows open. ~sigh~
Sorry.
No wonder the Old Grey Lady is Dead.... ignorant editors, gutless reporters, and none of them in touch with society.
Hey, hey now. No thread hijacking.
“In truth... ” don't make me puke!
I don’t know what the big deal is about this. Anyone who reads the NY Times for their news is probably a loser anyway — and probably has no interest in “news,” either.
And they are fully prepared to do so again.
What does your post have to do with the NYT’s coverage (or lack of) of the JFK airport plot?
(In truth, the decision was widely debated even within this newsroom.)
That’s obvious BS. If the decision was so close, why didn’t they put the story in A2 instead of deep within the paper? Actions speak louder than words: they wanted to burry the story pure and simple.
Its a no brainer why it made page 30. The story fell on the same day Paris Hilton was sent to jail. sarc...
Within a day the complaint with much of the information had been released to the public. They probably had it the same day and reviewed it. One of the guys was homeless. So yes, the NYT was probably correct in this situation. It was news, but then again it wasn't really news was it? It was not plausible and they didn't even have the means to carry it out.
I expect after the ridiculous pizza boy terrorist 'threat', they're more cautious about putting inflammatory headlines on the front page
The defense of the the story placement would have been adequate if it had been placed in a prominent place somewhere in pages A2-4 with a little lead in the box on page A-1 that points to important stories not starting on A-1. Even then it would have been poor editorial judgement, not blameworthy, just poor.
A30 was a deliberate attempt to bury it.
Sure, but you're being logical. That doesn't stop folks here from having a good time jumping up and down about it.
I don't read the NYT, so I don't know the answer to this, but here's a question: was page A30 the -last- page of the A-section (i.e. on the back) that day? If so, it's the next-most read page, after the front page...
Yes, and of course we ALL know that Atta and his merry band were just a bunch of drunks at a stripper bar on 9/10/2001. Dupes and dufuses, yes, some were, but look what they did. NOT apprehending this bunch would have been very foolish, and to insist it isn’t really “news” is even more so.
The same day, they had a cartoon by Ben Uber-Liberal Sergeant, that had the devil going into the VP's quarters. That was his contribution to the article about the President and VP to keep the visitor registers secret.
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