It will be if they don't prosecute.
"It will be if they don't prosecute."
This can't be stressed enough. You'd never know it from the reporting of the day, but the Tet Offensive was a mortal defeat for the NVA. Their commanding general TEACHES as such in places like the War College, and has written about it extensively. The press was part of HIS STRATEGY!
The key failing of the Vietnam War was Johnson's reluctance to prosecute the press, in my opinion. I'm not sure, however, that he expected a sympathetic liberal institution to shiv him like that. Rather and Cronkite are directly responsible, in my opinion, for the 3M people who died at the hands of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
Agnewism indeed. The trial against the NYT would be a short one:
1. Introduce their editorial of 2001 calling for a program of surveillance on financial transactions.
2. A detailing of the events surrounding their purposeful release of the information when even JOHN MURTHA urged them not to. JOHN MURTHA!!
You try them and jail them. If you don't, they'll leak something even more important.
Some people only understand the whip.