Word: selfcensorship
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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...years later, The Times, breaking with its policy of selfcensorship that had served the nation so badly at the Bay of Pigs and in the early years of Vietnam escalation, tore a page from the style books of the Old Mole and the Crimson and published its own set of stolen documents. The Pentagon Papers set off a chain of overreaction in the White House that eventually destroyed Richard Nixon and his clique, as surely as Pusey's overreaction destroyed...
...most flagrant instance of Reston's selfcensorship came in April 1961. Ten days before the Bay of Pigs invasion, Times reporter Tad Szulc put together a detailed story describing the training of Cuban refugees in Miami and the imminence of an invasion. But before the first edition came off the presses, Times publisher Orvil Dryfoos--on Reston's advice--ordered several changes. The story was moved from the lead column eight position to column four, and the headline was reduced from four columns to one column. All references to the imminence of the invasion were eliminated, and information linking...
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