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Jerry Walsh's avatar

Cathy Young, you wonder whether an aborted plan to assassinate Sonia Sotomayor would have been covered as quietly by news publications such as the New York Times. I think it would have been. At least, I hope it would have been.

When there's no other parties involved in the planning, when the final attack is not undertaken, and especially when it might reasonably be feared that prominent coverage would inspire imitators or be otherwise harmful to a secure and civil environment for courts, it is good ethics to present the facts without blaring headlines.

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