The early New York Times avoided the yellow journalism of its day and invested heavily not just in reporting on the federal government, but also on international news. It was so thorough, such a paper of record, that one Department of Army official reportedly said that the Times was "too big to read, too important not to." And a former U.S. Navy radioman recalls delivering the daily secret intelligence report and having one officer always say: "Ah, the front page of the New York Times. " The Times, for example, carried a story in 1961 that the United States was planning to invade Cuba. Much to the dismay of reporters and editors, the publisher at the time ordered that the story be toned down so as not to give away government secrets.
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