No White House Silent Treatment for N.Y. Times

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Some journalists at the New York Times' Washington bureau protested critics' harsh tone and said they feared administration sources might go silent. But the furor over the Swift banking article did not stop President Bush and his top spokesman from speaking warmly about the Times' White House reporters. It did not lead the administration to eliminate the paper's reports from the batch of press clippings delivered to the media daily. And at least a couple of important administration initiatives still got their first airing in the pages of the New York Times.

This is all just another shoving match between politicians and the press, said Ron Hutcheson, a White House correspondent for the McClatchy Co.'s newspapers and former president of the White House Correspondents' Assn.
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The New York Times' longtime White House correspondent David E. Sanger said the Times remained a fixture within the "foreign policy apparatus," in particular, because diplomats knew the newspaper was widely read in Washington and foreign capitals.
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On other beats, Times journalists said, the Swift story could be more problematic. Bulletins reportedly have gone up in some offices at the Pentagon, for example, urging employees to "save a life" by not talking to Times reporters.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-nyt24jul24,0,95748.story?coll=la-home-nation

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1. Funny how those "media elites" keep winning Pulitzer Prizes

Why does the Pulitzer hate America?