Wash Post "Scoop" Led to 241 Marines Dead; the MSM's Butchers Bill.

From Protein Wisdom.

in a 1986 speech, [former WaPo publisher Katharine Graham, who died in 2001] warned that the media sometimes made “tragic” mistakes.

Her example was the disclosure, after the bombing of the American embassy in Beirut in 1983, that American intelligence was reading coded radio traffic between terrorist plotters in Syria and their overseers in Iran. The communications stopped, and five months later they struck again, destroying the Marine barracks in Beirut and killing 241 Americans.

“This kind of result, albeit unintentional, points up the necessity for full cooperation wherever possible between the media and the authorities,” Ms. Graham said.

But the First Amendment was reinforced. Those dead Marines were the MSM's "collateral damage." Who will pay the NY Times butchers bill and how big will it be?