Miller Responds (To NYT's Public Editor. Miller didn't try to pursue story until 7/8/03 mtg)

National Review Online ^ | 10/24/05 | Jonah Goldberg

[frankjr]

"Why would I – the supposedly pushiest, most competitive reporter on the planet -- not have pushed to pursue a tantalizing tip like this? Soon after my breakfast meeting with Libby in July, I did so. I remember asking the editor to let me explore..."

It appears that from the quote above, Libby did not say anything interesting enough at the June 23 meeting with Miller, since her interest was not peaked enough to pursue a story until her July 8 meeting with Libby. Which is, of course, after Russert spoke with Libby.

Link to Miller's response to public editor: http://forums.nytimes.com/top/opinion/readersopinions/forums/thepubliceditor/publiceditorswebjournal/index.html?oref=login

[Fenris6]

Also note that the NYTs is spinning the news again [did they ever stop?]

[evad]

Luuuv it when the bad guys try to eat each other.

[Maceman]

You accuse me of taking journalistic “shortcuts” without presenting evidence of what you mean and rely on unsubstantiated innuendo

What's the problem? She's pretty much describing SOP for the MSM, as far as I can tell.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Judy Miller fights back against her own newspaper's effort to defenestrate her.

Instead of doing that, they should just throw her out of a window.

[Fenris6]

/via Powerline

"Who has been the better journalist - Judith Miller or those attacking her in her own paper's pages? Ms. Miller was sounding the alarm about the Iraqi threat and working her sources and fighting not to get beat. Ms. Dowd was parroting unsubstantiated smears, and Mr. Wilson was falsely downplaying Iraq's effort to obtain weapons of mass destruction, without disclosing to Times readers his wife's institutional interests."

http://www.nysun.com/article/21916

[frankjr]

Thanks for the Sun link. It shows that at the NYTimes, the loonies are in charge of that asylum.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

But since you did, yes, the editor was Jill Abramson

I actually believe Miller on this one. Abramson has zero credibility since her shoddy, biased reporting on the Clarence Thomas - Anita Hill matter.

[Bahbah]

And these guys are at the top of the profession--one of them won a Pulitzer!

Well, that is very revealing.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Today's Dem Talking Points:

I just listened to a bit of Jerry Sproinger. He says that Rove and Libby were involved in forging those "fake" WMD documents. He says that that is why the White House is so terrified by this investigation. He's going bonkers over it!

[don'tbedenied]

The inevitable overreach. Chrissie Mathews has been implying this sort of thing while wetting his pants in excitement.

[Safetgiver]

Judy Miller fights back against her own newspaper's effort to defenestrate her.... why, those pigs.

[frankjr]

"He says that Rove and Libby were involved in forging those "fake" WMD documents."

Those Niger forgeries were so obviously fake that they were not created by anyone with a desire to support the WMD claim, they were created by someone who wanted to undermine that claim. It is also interesting that the CIA had the docs in their posession, but did not push the WH on the fake claim. No matter who, if anyone, is indicted, this will all come out eventually. And the CIA is not looking too good.

[finnman69]

So..does Jill Abramson need to hire lawyers?

[Steve_Seattle]

One thing I am absolutely sure of is that Rove and Libby had nothing to do with forging those documents. That is pure DU wet-dream fantasy stuff. My forlorn hope is that if Fitz is as good as people said he is, he will see through all this spin and perceive what the actual facts are, i.e., that a bungling and corrupt CIA is trying to overthrow the President. Wilson has basically admitted as much.

[sam_paine]

Bejeezus! Is this a defenestration or an autophagy?

[KC_Conspirator]

defenestrate

Ahh, of my favorite words. Such as in "I am so broke I don't have a pot to pee in or the means to defenestrate".

[motherof 3]

I'm glad they are going after Miller before she writes her book. Maybe, she will expose what goes on at the NYT. What a horrible smug group Abramson, Frank Rich, Klugmen and Dowd.

[Bernard Marx]

And these guys are at the top of the profession--one of them won a Pulitzer!

That says a lot about both the reporters and the Pulitzer Committee, doesn't it?