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Howard Kurtz - washingtonpost.com](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/20/AR2009062001745.html?wprss=rss_world):

Still, the unusual arrangement raises questions about whether journalists were giving special treatment to one of their own. “It certainly could appear that way, but it’s more complicated than that when a human life is at stake,” said Phil Bronstein, former editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. “It does involve a news organization keeping quiet and asking others to keep quiet. What shocks me is that it was so successful.”