So, four newspapers go to print with a story on the same day.

[bpyatt]

The story is about financial and banking transactions. Two of the
newspapers were asked by the White House not to run the story. The
other two newspapers, which are financial newspapers, were not.

Which newspaper is most likely to have decided to run the story first?

[Sadie5]

1. Something to this

It almost seems like the Times was singled out for the latest GOP witch hunt. seems like they needed to be taught a lesson by the Rove machine for some infraction of Rove policy. The trouble is I can't figure out what the Times did to stir up the GOP like this.

[nancyr]

2. The Times and the GOP

The Times has always been the mouthpiece of the liberal press, according to the right-wing. They've been nagging about this for years, so now they've seen a chance to really rile up their base of loonies. Apparently they've not bothered to read the Times lately, because it has appeared to me the Times has fallen in line and quit reporting facts much like their counterparts. This is a attack and nothing else....and it's all they know how to do: smear and innuendo works well for them.

[Dr Fate]

6. Yeah boy- that Judith Miller was a real lefty mouthpiece alright. n/t

n/t

[Igel]

3. I believe the NYT

said they were working on the story, and got wind that others were clued in on it.

Their claim to not rushing is that they delayed so long that the others caught up, and nearly passed them. Hard to say who decided to run the story first; sounds like the NYT's claiming primacy on the story itself, though.

[gratuitous]

4. A little mystifying

Especially after the New York Times so kindly sat on the warrantless wiretaps story for over a year. You'd think that breaking that story in the middle of the 2004 election might have been useful information for the public to have, especially when it comes to determining who's going to be president for the next four years, but the Times didn't think anyone needed that information to form their opinion.

But in the Republican world of "What have you done for me lately," the Times "breaking" the old, old story that the Bush administration is snooping through your financial records becomes a twofer: Rally the base against the librul media, and threaten the Times with expensive lawsuits and legislation.

[Gold Metal Flake]

5. Did ya'll see this?

WH spent four years "bragging" publicly about Swift program