The purpose is... <drumroll> informing the readers? Why should the media be prohibited to write about the media and, more importantly, who should do it if they

The purpose is... <drumroll> informing the readers? Why should the media be prohibited to write about the media and, more importantly, who should do it if they can't? And of course they'll be reporting from a certain perspective, which is probably going to assign a higher value to the Watergate leak than the ice bucket challenge. But it's unlikely to be a conspiracy - nicely exemplified bt the fact that the "real news" in this article would be Fox News. I doubt the NYT has a secrect pro-Murdoch agenda.