There is a fascinating war of the ticktocks between @washingtonpost http://washingtonpost.com/national-secur … and @nytimes http://nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/ …

Post cites key WH missteps Jan 3 to Jan 29. NYT clock starts on Jan 28. (With glancing, uncredited reference to Post reporting) and focuses on Feb

Both are important to understand WH missteps.

The Times is focused on the period when Trump was unambiguously told of the crisis. (Making much of my least favorite bit—the Navarro memo).

The Post makes clear something more important (imho).

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That the Trump WH was built to suppress info the President didn’t want to hear. So, staffers understood not to share facts that the boss would object to.

The Post also shows a sort of shadow response building pre-Trump awareness.

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January 29 is the key day of overlap between these two approaches.

It comes at the end of the Post ticktock, when the official WH task force is formally launched.

It launches the Times ticktock when Navarro wrote his memo (which, again, I think was not important).

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It’s good for readers to have access to both narratives, which, together, paint a fuller picture of either alone. And it’ll be great to get the March, April... timelines down, too.

Interesting mark of the nature of competitive journalism, though, that

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It is only by reading both you get the fullest picture. (Though, in competitive terms, the Post came first and went back furthest, so a clear victory, for those who care about such things).

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