AP Picks Up Zyprexa/Berenson Story

…and it’s here.  The Times’s response:

“We just got all the papers in this matter, including the invitation, and we’re studying them and will respond to the judge in due course,” said spokeswoman Diane McNulty. “We believe our reporting in this matter was very newsworthy and was derived from routine newsgathering procedures.”

I’m certainly no reporter, but as I noted before, I’ve never seen a situation where a reporter apparently put a source in contact with an attorney with the purpose of getting documents out from under seal.

(The order is excerpted and linked to in this post.)