Embargoes, the NY Times, and the WHO

For the next two weeks, if you want news about the World Health Organization (WHO), you may have to consult sources other than __The New York Times__. According to an Email I just received from the WHO, the organization has suspended the __Times__ from its media distribution list for two weeks after the newspaper broke an embargo on a linkurl:story on measles deaths. ;http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/world/africa/29briefs-measles.html?_r=1&oref=slogin (They've dropped sharply, it turns out.) ''WHO communications staff have been asked not to brief any __New York Times__ reporters during this period on any stories that are scheduled to be released through the WHO email distribution list,'' the Email also reported. I'm sure the __Times__ will figure out a way to report on the WHO without the embargoed material. They're a newspaper. It's what they do. And two weeks isn't that long a period of time. What struck me was the public flogging. In recent...