Tony Snow Tells Editor&Publisher: 'NYT' Deserves Special Criticism

Tony Snow Tells E&P: 'NYT' Deserves Special Criticism
By Joe Strupp
Published: June 27, 2006

NEW YORK White House Press Secretary Tony Snow told E&P today that The New York Times deserves the brunt of criticism for disclosure of a secret bank records monitoring program, even though two other newspapers - The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times - reported the same story at almost the same time.

But he added that, no matter what the National Review argues, the Times will not be losing its White House credentials.

Snow, along with President Bush and Vice President Cheney, on Monday criticized the Times for publishing the story despite administration efforts to halt it. He told E&P that the criticism was directed at the New York paper because it "was way ahead of the other two and started much earlier. The other two were playing catch up."

Reminded that the administration had reached out to both The New York Times and Los Angeles Times with requests to hold the story, Snow repeated his assertion. "The other newspapers were not involved to the same extent," he added. "The Times is really pulling the train on this one."

Snow noted that the Treasury Department had been in talks with the New York Times for several weeks trying to get them to withhold publication, a fact previously confirmed to E&P by Times reporter Eric Lichtblau, one of two reporters on the story. He also said that the delay allowed the other papers to catch up....

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Thanks to judy miller playing stenographer for the white house writing their lies in their run up to war, the paper deserved special criticism.

and girls? Or are you going to start standing up and doing your darn jobs?

one think they were set up. Before in these stories of leaks they went full force after the leaker, so maybe kkkarl has been busier than we thought.

He'll just love the Guardian...:)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2356701

I can't wait. Of course, most of us read it online already, don't we?

train of demonization by the right wing base) than it is to demonize the WSJ.

tell tony snow and george bush to go fuck themselves.hell,they are private,show your balls.ron suskind had already stated that it was much ado about nothing.attack and attack.the 1% doctrine according to darth vader cheney states we can attack any country if there is a 1 % chance they will attack us,yet we attack a country that couldn`t a state in the u.s.,unless the game plan is directed by don rumsfeld.hey what about china guys?

'journalists' went to jail to defend the BFEE!!!! What more do you want? I know...total control over the media.

the NY Times deserves this because they went to bed with the repug morons.

...and returned to the professional organization itself, where it was for decades. The WH should not be able to restrict access unilaterally. The credentialing and any necessary restriction should be solely the responsibility of the White House Correspondents Association. Access needs to be codified, as it is for members of the press who cover Congress.