NYT and WAPO Trade Front Pages Nightly

Somewhere around 10:30 and 11:00 pm every night, the New York Times and the Washington Post trade their next-day front pages in a secret formal arrangement to apparently feed the same stories to the American public. The practice started "as a courtesy between Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. and former Times Executive Editor Joseph Lelyveld in the early 1990s and has continued ever since." And, of course, the rest of the MSM reprints the stories verbatim, citing both the Times and the Post as sources.

Interesting, but hardly surprising. It's always been suspicious that two supposedly independent sources are able to break the same stories at the same time. I figured it was happening, now I know how.

Companion post at In The Bullpen.