Sure he said that he had no cooperation from the NYT powers that be but the way I read it, his column goes on to explain how important it was that the NYT employees have secrecy to protect themselves and their sources.
I don't recall any concern for the secrecy often required to protect American lives.
I wonder if any MSM employee who's adopted the "standards" of our Leninist agitators see the double standard of secrecy for we but not thee. To wit,
Influenced by Rutten, Jason Zengerle wrote in the New Republic’s blog, The Plank, that “if the Times and most other media outlets actually abided by Rosen’s transparency prescription, they wouldn’t be able to produce first-rate stories like the one about the NSA’s warrantless surveillance. Rather, they’d be spending all their time working on meta stories.”
They did a nice job of keeping the contents of John Kerry's service record secret.