Ah, wake up and smell the coffee DougR--not a big secret that The White House has often called on major news outlets to hold back coverage on certain stories- and it has and had been publically discussed by likes of Robert McNamara, John Mitchell, and Ben Bradley--There was a Watergate forum, featuring many of the key players, that aired a while back on C-SPAN--Bradley talked about being called by Mitchell and discussing with the late and lamented Katherine Graham the implications of refusing his request--

Might I suggest, in all sincerity, that you pick up some of the after the fact accounts of Watergate, Iran Contra, etc--