

The Dover photos have hit the wire, along with a Bill Carter NYT piece. Not on the website yet. It says the Pentagon "labeled the decision to grant the [FOIA] request a mistake." Here's the traditional-media-drops-the-ball-internet-runs-with-it angle that will doubtless echo across the net tomorrow:
Executives at news organizations, many of whom have protested the policy [of banning photography of war dead at Dover], said Thursday night they had not known that the Defense Department itself was taking photographs of the coffins arriving home, a fact that only came to light when Russ Kick, the operator of The Memory Hole filed a Freedom of Information Act request.Doh!"We were not aware at all that these photos were being taken," said Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times.
John Banner, the executive producer of ABC's "World News Tonight," said, "We did not file a FOIA request ourselves, because this was the first we had known that the military was shooting these pictures."
Update: As of the 7:30 ET advisory, this story was planned for downpage A1 of the Times. Also, as Aaron Brown just showed, it will be the A1 centerpiece of the Philly Inquirer.
Update: The WaPo's story, skedded for A10, is here. And the Times story is now here.
>Photos of Soldiers' Coffins Revive Controversy [The Washington Post]
>Pentagon Ban on Pictures of Dead Troops Is Broken [The New York Times]
