Editor & Publisher
Wall Street Journal managing editor
Paul Steiger and Washington Post executive editor
Leonard Downie Jr. were both asked to be part of last weekend's joint op-ed piece by the editors of the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, which defended the publication of stories about the SWIFT bank monitoring program, but each declined. Downie tells
Joe Strupp: "I think one of the important things about American journalism is that each newspaper operates on its own and I didn't want to join in a group situation. We are independent."
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Janensch: Papers should be prosecuted for running stories? Absurd! (HC)
