[WikiEN-l] News agencies are not RSs

[Fred Bauder]

> Sam Blacketer wrote:
>> This case is more about basic common sense...
>
> Well, no.  This case is about whether an editor at (in this case)
> The New York Times can successfully collude with editors of other
> major media outlets, for the best of reasons, to keep a certain
> fact out of the media for N months.  And can this still be done
> when one of the other media outlets has 1,000,000 cats as editors,
> who actively resist herding, and especially when someone's trying
> to suppress some information that "wants to be free".
>

When someone's life is at stake, Ignore all rules actually kicks in. I
have no problem whatever with what the Times or Jimbo did.

Fred