Times Trashfest: The Trashing of Judith Miller

New York Post ^ | 10/25/2005 | John Podhoretz

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TIMES TRASHFEST

IN the past few days, writers and editors of The New York Times have taken turns trashing the talent, integrity, skills and character of their colleague, Judith Miller — a reporter who had just spent nearly three months in jail defending the paper's journalistic rights against a hard-charging special prosecutor whose appointment the Times had demanded two years before.

It's fair to say that nothing like this has ever happened before in the annals of American journalism. No one contemporaneously employed by a newspaper has ever been assailed by a colleague in its pages the way Maureen Dowd assailed Miller on Saturday.

Dowd had the gall to say she "liked" Miller even as she calmly dumped a bucket of slime over Miller's "tropism toward powerful men, her frantic intensity and her peculiar mixture of hard work and hauteur."

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THE issue that has ostensibly caused this unprecedented character assas sination is Miller's involvement in the public exposure of CIA operative Valerie Plame. And in this case, no one at the paper is accusing Miller of making anything up — because she never published anything on the subject. Nor can anyone accuse Judith Miller of harming the reputation of an innocent —

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The outraged prose on this matter from writers outside the Times — like Greg Mitchell of Editor and Publisher and the just-out-of-the-nuthouse cases populating the Huffington Post on the Web — suggests that if only the Times had published nothing articles more skeptical of the WMD claims, it could have kept the war from happening.

Because, you know, the world revolves around the Times. The world spins on its axis around a liberal newspaper of declining influence . . . whose most famous and powerful staffers now think there's great merit in devouring their own.

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if the times is trashing miller then there are no indictments against the WH on the original charges

[dervish]

Thanks for posting. Finally a thread that supports Miller.

I understand why the left hates her but why the right?

Miller was one of the few who bucked the trend at the NYT and supported the need to remove Saddam. Although the Left, NYT, the CIA and State hate Chalabi and his intel, he's got the last laugh.

And Miller wrote about Bin Laden and the danger he posed pre 9/11.

http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2002/explanatory-reporting/works/011501.html