In meetings, leaders of The Washington Post and The New York Times pondered how to publish the manifesto in a responsible way, without promoting a serial bomber as an author and with the proper context to inform readers.
Unbeknown to the majority of the country, leaders at The Post and the New York Times spent months debating whether to agree with the Unabomber’s demand that they publish the full manuscript before his deadline. Failure to do so, the Unabomber threatened, would result in a bomb sent to an unspecified destinationto publish the essay in a special edition of The Post. Federal officials, including FBI Director Louis J.
“If we didn’t publish it, he’d go and kill more people,” Downie told The Post. “And if we did publish it, it raised the question whether a decision to publish something in the paper was being dictated by a terrorist. That was a very difficult decision.” It was during this period when Downie and then-Post publisher Donald E. Graham, along with top leaders from the Times, including publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., met with federal officials at the FBI’s headquarters on at least three occasions, Downie said.
according to Downie. The Times agreed to split the printing costs, though it never published the manuscript.
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