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Posted on 10/13/2005 6:37:14 PM PDT by blogblogginaway
Now Is the Time
The lifting of the contempt order against Judith Miller of The New York Times in connection with the Valerie Wilson leak investigation leaves no reason for the paper to avoid providing a full explanation of the situation. Now.
As public editor, I have been asking some basic questions of the key players at The Times since July 12. But they declined to fully respond to my fundamental questions because, they said, of the legal entanglements of Ms. Miller and the paper. With Ms. Miller in jail and the legal situation unclear, I felt it would be unfair to publicly castigate them for their caution.
At the same time, I decided my lack of information made it impossible to fairly evaluate for readers Ms. Miller’s refusal to identify confidential sources and how The Times was handling the matter. The absence of complete answers to my fundamental questions also prevented me from publicly rising to Ms. Miller’s defense, despite the initial burst of First Amendment fervor among some journalists supporting her.
But legal concerns should no longer rule the roost.
Now I look forward to assessing the full explanation that Bill Keller, the executive editor, has promised the paper will deliver to readers under the supervision of Jonathan Landman, the deputy managing editor. While a multitude of issues need to be addressed, I certainly will expect The Times’s explanation to address these fundamental questions that I first posed to the key players at the paper in July: --Was Ms. Miller’s contact with the source she is protecting initiated and conducted in genuine pursuit of a news article for Times readers? --Why didn’t she write an article? --What kinds of notes are there and who has them? --Why wasn’t she exploring a voluntary waiver from the source?
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Not bloody likely.
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Don't hold your breath Byron. However, he is free to buy her book when it comes out.
I think this poor guy is looking to get fired. (smile)
As public editor, I have been asking some basic questions of the key players at The Times since July 12. But they declined to fully respond to my fundamental questions because, they said, of the legal entanglements of Ms. Miller and the paper. With Ms. Miller in jail and the legal situation unclear, I felt it would be unfair to publicly castigate them for their caution.
At the same time, I decided my lack of information made it impossible to fairly evaluate for readers Ms. Miller’s refusal to identify confidential sources how how The Times was handling the matter. The absence of complete answers to my fundamental questions also prevented me from publicly rising to Ms. Miller’s defense, despite the initial burst of First Amendment fervor among some journalists supporting her.
But legal concerns should no longer rule the roost. Now I look forward to assessing the full explanation that Bill Keller, the executive editor, has promised the paper will deliver to readers under the supervision of Jonathan Landman, the deputy managing editor. While a multitude of issues need to be addressed, I certainly will expect The Times’s explanation to address these fundamental questions that I first posed to the key players at the paper in July: --Was Ms. Miller’s contact with the source she is protecting initiated and conducted in genuine pursuit of a news article for Times readers? --Why didn’t she write an article? --What kinds of notes are there and who has them? --Why wasn’t she exploring a voluntary waiver from the source?
THERE. NOW it makes perfect sense.
Do you suppose the NYT ombudsman fears contantly for his life with all those NYT reporters running around with their sharpened pencils? Is he chained to a Xerox machine, ya think?
Hahaha, you're good. It makes sense now.
He can't seriously be thinking that the NYT will come clean on Miller by this weekend, can he? I'd expect them to stonewall at least until the grand jury's term ends, and until Fitzgerald either releases indictments or says "never mind"...
I'm giving Miller a pass for now...I think this investigation may be somewhere far different than Calame realizes. The NYT could be in trouble or they could be sitting on a huge story waiting for the green light.
It all seems to make so much more sense your way, Blur.
Thanks for removing the cruft from the article!
well done!
DING!
I'll expect a "resolution" any day now.
The mice at the New York Times are clearly afraid that the version of the story they would LIKE to publish will be exposed by the Washington Post as a lie. So they figure they'll keep their mouths shut until they can figure out exactly how much the Post knows.
It's the oldest gambit in the book - - like the cat and mouse game between Bill Clinton and Ken Starr's key witness, Monica Lewinsky; Clinton couldn't explain himself to the country "sooner, rather than later" until Lewinsky testified, because only THEN would he know how to lie. But Starr kept Monica quiet for MONTHS, lol!
I figure the NY Times will wait until they think they know exactly how much the Washington Post knows - - THEN they will have a better idea of what they can get away with. But I think the Post is not about to (fully) tip its hand. Not yet. Meanwhile, there are some pretty unhappy (and mighty embarrassed) folks rolling their eyes in that NY Times newsroom.
LOL
Behind his smoke screen is smoke and mirrors reflecting yet more smoke.
Wow, the "Public Editor" of the NY Times is calling attention to the fact that they have been beyond reluctant to come clean with their account.... to quote myself from another thread, I suspect there are very strong reasons for such reluctance that go well beyond Judith Miller's legal predicament (we have to wonder whether the NY Times will ever really come clean, at least in our lifetimes):
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