I don't think it is going to work this time. Everyone knows that this White House has been all too willing to use the NYT and other press as back channels to get their lies and fear-mongering out when they have deemed it to their advantage. They can't have it both ways.
Running Against The Press, Christian Science Monitor Puts White House Criticism Of NY Times In Perspective - CBS News:
The outgoing secretary of the Treasury, John Snow, in what may have been his last official act, wrote to The New York Times that in exposing the monitoring of bank transfers, it had undermined a successful counterterrorism program.
A House resolution, passed by a party line vote, called on the media to safeguard classified programs.
The government has discovered what governments have discovered before, that an undercurrent of hostility toward the news media runs through the country and that there could be political advantage in campaigning against the press in general.
The champion press hater, of course, was President Nixon, who told his staff that the press is the enemy, and he proceeded to declare his own private war against the media.
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