Posted on 03/18/2006 6:21:22 AM PST by summer
Judith Miller has a new alibi -- the blogs done her in!
Writer Marie Brenner presents Miller's latest defense in an April Vanity Fair feature story about the fallout from the Valerie Plame investigation. ...
The ones tossing the fire were those dastardly—but unnamed—bloggers ...
In June, back in New York, "Miller realized that she was losing her authority" inside the Times. "None of my colleagues ever spoke to me about my reporting. But they would say, 'We don't want to work with her.'
In August, Bill Keller replaced Raines as executive editor, and according to Miller, he told her, "You are radioactive. … You can see it in the blogs."
"I'm pretty sure I never said any such thing," Keller tells Brenner. (This isn't the only recent "he said, she said" story in which Miller comes out the loser. See this sidebar.)
Miller describes to Vanity Fair the process by which the Pajama People destroyed her:
The bloggers were without editing, without a way for people to understand what was good, what was well reported—to distinguish between the straight and the slanderous. Things would get instantly picked up, magnified, and volumized.
(Sounds more like what my hairdresser does with my thinning locks. But never mind.)
In Miller's mind, the bloggers not only poisoned her relationship with the Times brass but also with her colleagues, who, she says, "believed what they read on the blogs."
...Exactly who were all these unnamed bloggers ripping Miller to pieces? ...
If nasty bloggers played such a crucial role in her downfall, why is Miller only now bringing them up? ...
A lame excuse? A case of recovered memory? Or something worse?
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
A case of recovered memory, like the recovered memory of childhood abuse that turns up thirty seconds after the kid is cut out of the will.
Just something to consider...if the Pajama Boys are such a threat...then every poltician in this country should be shaking in their boots right now. And every newsreporter ought to worried.
"Things would get instantly picked up, magnified, and volumized."
Is this about whatchamacallit Plame, or bird flu?
I prefer People of the Jammies myself.
What is she talking about?
We have sprell checkk!
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