[rachelbythebay]

"This doesn’t sound like something we would want on the front page of the NYT." is a reference to the training you get while working there. It goes something like this: "if you wouldn't want it on the front page of the NYT _attributed to you_, don't say it to the press".

It's right next to the part where they tell you to take things offline rather than leaving a paper trail around -- but of course, they word it a bit more carefully than that.

"Don't be evil" vs. "don't do evil" vs. "don't leave records of evil". Very different things.