BRADENTON, Fla., Feb. 15, 2011, 9:30 a.m. -- Just two days ago, the New York Times ran a very short story saying that anonymous Deutsch Borse officials in Frankfurt, Germany, had denied a story in the Wall Street Journal several days before saying that the German exchange, based in Frankfurt but a global player, was buying the New York Stock Exchange, home of the Big Board and its storied trading floor, and now officially known as NYSE Euronext. For the space of a breath, it appeared that two great institutions of American journalism were at sharp odds on the facts of a vitally important international story.