The New York Times is considering doing away with traditional datelines – which tell readers when a reporter filed a story, even if it actually appears in print on a later date – and instead opting just to tell readers where the story was filed, so articles don’t feel “stale” even if they’ve been sitting on the shelf for a few days.
Reports Politico:
When the New York Times published a front page story Sunday about the United States??? and Pakistan???s joint clandestine efforts to protect nuclear weapons, the newspaper offered a glimpse into a ???highly classified program??? the Bush administration long objected to seeing in print.
That is, apparently, until now.
In the article???s 11th paragraph, the Times disclosed that publication was delayed ???for more than three years,??? after the administration argued ???that premature disclosure could hurt the effort to secure the weapons.???
No matter: The article still carried a Nov. 17 dateline. Which was, actually, Saturday.
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