Monday, June 26, 2006
ny times
-I wonder whether this story will have long legs and a long life, or just die a quiet-ish death. It's pretty horrible that they hate the administration so much they were willing to risk charges of aiding and abetting a national enemy in order to publish the story.
-In WWII would the Times have released the information that the enigma code was solved if they'd gotten word of it in the mid-forties? Should a country announce how clever it is to have broken an important code when the result of intercepting and using the code, instead, is saving thousands (millions?) of lives and shortening a war?
-Today's picture on the front page of a sign saying "Dead End" makes me wonder if they've decided to stop showing at least one dead body on the front page every day (get it? "dead" end?). Today's first dead body photo is all the way back on page A8. But perhaps I am reading too much into the sign. I hope not.
-In WWII would the Times have released the information that the enigma code was solved if they'd gotten word of it in the mid-forties? Should a country announce how clever it is to have broken an important code when the result of intercepting and using the code, instead, is saving thousands (millions?) of lives and shortening a war?
-Today's picture on the front page of a sign saying "Dead End" makes me wonder if they've decided to stop showing at least one dead body on the front page every day (get it? "dead" end?). Today's first dead body photo is all the way back on page A8. But perhaps I am reading too much into the sign. I hope not.
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