WHEN I wrote on my blog recently about The Times’s decision not to give front-page coverage to a Congressional hearing on the consulate attack in Libya, hundreds of e-mails and comments poured in. The amount and vehemence of the reader response struck me as important. I drew a couple of conclusions. First, it is utterly wrong to say that The Times has ignored or buried the Libya story. Second, to be more critical, the Libya coverage has not consistently and effectively helped readers make sense of what is happening. The Times has not effectively connected the dots in a murky,...