The media's hand in the financial fall outs

I came across this article in the NY Times regarding the way journalists have been covering the recent financial fall outs occurring in our country. I thought it was interesting that these journalists have been self-sensoring themselves in order to avoid a national panic. One of the most critical issues in journalism from the past and today is the issue of censorship, whether it's from government, corporations, etc. In this case, the journalists are utilizing this very thing in order to protect the citizens of the nation and their own reputations after much blame has been placed on them in the past regarding other Wall Street scandals/fall outs.