Who the f**K do they think they are?
I think dean baquet thinks he runs the show at what ever cost!

can you be more specific?

I'm just watching an interview with him on the bbc, he thought it's more important to give away information deemed 'secret ' reference the Manchester bomb than it is to respect our security services and people involved with the injured. very arrogant guy, he said he did the same with incidents in the us.

He'll be happy as of an hour ago there's another major incident on going in London!

The media only cares about making a story. They don't care about anything else

mike that is what happens when we try to balance common sense with a 'public right to know' culture,,,

Yes that's my thoughts. I wrote this thread as he made me angry not only for us but for you to. I've calmed down now and wondering if I should have posted it. but I have

Hey it's out there now

I was just wondering wtf you were talking about

Making headlines is the goal for them.

Yes I agree, but I also think our need to know should not be twisted or altered but delayed. We are watching this so the 'enemy ' is watching to and that helps them

I knew you'd come to my rescue. ...or tell me off

The N.Y Times, N.Y. Post and The Daily News ( the 3 N.Y.C. newspapers) have been battling it out for well over 100 years to beat each other on a daily basis. They hate each other...and will do most anything to beat the others morning headline.

Unfortunately, they really don't care who they step on.. what they leak or who they upset. they are about 1 thing only.. selling papers.

Yes, my thoughts to, just a pity greed takes over there purpose
I wonder how the one tonight will pan out!

The newspaper feuds In N.Y.C. go back to Alexander Hamilton, Right thru to the industrial age and Randolph Hurst, the Rockefeller's and others or that era.

Its great reading if you ever get the chance.

I think there's a little more to it than greed. And the particular variant of greed is a bit complicated.

It is true that the profit motive is the most powerful factor in American news. This is why we get so many expose type scandal stories, as well as why lots of reporters make rush-to-judgement decisions about the information they have. The biggest audience, and therefor the biggest profits, always go to the people who get the story FIRST, and not to the ones who show WISDOM about their reporting. It has always been the unfortunate nature of capitalism, that businesses which adhere to high ideals, only succeed over those who don't, by accident. It's why all capitalist societies need to be regulated. But we can't regulate the news, if we are to have a truly free press to protect us from liars and other scalawags, so we must occasionally suffer this kind of nonsense instead.

The NY-Slimes!
Stalin's personal Apologist!

come on,Government regulating Free Speech?
Goat watching the Cabbage-Patch?

"come on,Government regulating Free Speech?
Goat watching the Cabbage-Patch?laugh"

Precisely.

Freedom of speech is totally different to giving away information hours after an attack,
That is just plain greed to sell a story and very insensitive to those involved in the attack.
We all know that the media sells this information to other outlets , this should stop. it's the media who are putting at risk normal people's freedom to speak out!

I quite agree, and I was not excusing that. What I was talking about, is that the only way to maintain freedom of the press, is to accept that sometimes the judgment of the publishers will be flawed, and that it will have to be criticized after the fact, just as you have. But that the only other solution, is to put an end to freedom of the press.

I'm talking about the clumsy results of an imperfect human exercise of an important ideal. I would similarly, like to have it NOT be true, that leading candidates and world leaders would make ill advised speeches, which caused various people elsewhere in the world, to commit heinous acts of one kind and another. But again, that would entail putting an end to the idea that any leader could exist, and be empowered to do anything GOOD, either.

By the way, isn't the real problem here, that someone in the Government LEAKED the information to the press? There's nothing in the story I've seen, claiming that the people who published the information, broke into a data base or an office somewhere and stole it.