Mediagazer: Connecting the Dots in Libya (Margaret Sullivan/New York Times)

11:55 AM ET, October 21, 2012

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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

Connecting the Dots in Libya — WHEN I wrote on my blog recently about The Times's decision not to give front-page coverage to a Congressional hearing on the consulate attack in Libya, hundreds of e-mails and comments poured in. — While it is hard to summarize that much correspondence …

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