Slate media critic Jack Shafer took at run at embargoes back on Nov. 21 (see this blog posting for details).

He was back earlier this week. Apparently the NYT accidentally violated a World Health Organization embargo recently and is now on the liste du merde. Here's Shafer on the international group's decision to suspend NYT reporters from its distribution list for two weeks:

It was well within WHO's discretion to shame the Times with a little jawboning for breaking its promise to keep the embargo. Instead, it gave the paper what Scientist Deputy Editor Ivan Oransky describes as a "public flogging." The organization's sense of justice tells you all you need to know about why embargoes exist in the first place: It's all about being on top, baby.

(H/T to GuyNick!)