Romenesko

University of Maryland Diamondback
"After years of telling the story of the Pentagon Papers individually, the two seemed more interested in getting to know each other," writes Megha Rajagopalan. The student journalist sat down with Ben Bradlee and Daniel Ellsberg and asked the former Washington Post editor: "If you hadn't published [the Pentagon Papers], what was at stake for The Post? - because it was already run, at least some of it, in The Times." BRADLEE: "I would have died. That's the stake. You would have lost me. I would never have- no, I mean, it was and is a competitive world, especially between The Times and The Post. When The Times had it and The Post didn't, that was - that was not nice."