• The New York Times, Tuesday, September 6, 2011 2:15 PM

With the media's coverage of the tenth anniversary of 9/11 beginning in earnest this week, the New York Times' Jeremy W. Peters and Brian Stelter report on how publications and TV channels have attempted to walk "the fine line between commemoration and exploitation" both editorially and in ad sales.

For example, New York magazine (whose entry into the category was a well-done encyclopedia of 9/11 related items, from A for Airport Security to Z for Zazi, Najibullah) "gave advertisers who had already bought space in the magazine the option of bowing out," because, according to publisher Lawrence C. Burstein, the anniversary "touches people in all kinds of different personal ways."

We're fascinated by all the different angles media outlets took -- like People magazine's "articles about 10 children whose fathers died in the attacks before they were born."

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