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 ...
Re your posts #30 and #38 -- Yes, you are right, when speaking in terms of the entire blogosphere. But I was only talking about what happens within a forum. And, in that case, it does depend on the forum. But, true -- out and beyond, there is still a whole other realm.
Yes, I agree with you. They are very afraid of the bloggers. It's too bad -- they have a bigger audience with bloggers. You'd think they could see that as an advantage, but they don't.
Think so.
The woman dared to write some articles on WMD and biological warfare in Iraq .
Crucify Her
Thanks a bunch! Cool looking stuff.
The other thing this woman did which the left cannot tolerate is to talk to members of the current administration...oh the horror
Absolutely...I would say her bosses were irresponsible for failing to back her up though
Kind of like the MSM, only with some facts instead of agenda-driven fantasy.
Surely a great mind like Judith Miller understands that slander is spoken defamation, but a printed matter like a web log could only be libel, not slander.
Someone needs to get someone to finance them, and start a "BloggerTV" cable news station.
Blogs seem to be holding the MSM's feet to the fire and exposing their lies (Rathergate, now Millergate, the lies and false attacks on President Bush), but the people who watch CNN and the like don't always read blogs. Nice if there was a blogtv only reporting the facts in blogs (like from FR, Little Green Footballs, Healingiraq, etc) so those TV-only types can get fed facts. Even if it was only a one or two hour program on Fox. Let someone normal host it like Monica Crowley or Malkin (that would exclude ShepSmith, whorealdo, Greta Van Ambulancechaser, etc)
While blaming the bloggers makes an easy target (too easy, they are idiots), I would remind all of the push to make bloggers legally accountable and IIRC, part of
1. "Thou shalt not speak negatively about an incumbent x number of days before an election"
2. "Thou shalt not hold an incumbent responsible for his/her record x number of days prior to an election.
The media and the politicians have the internet in their sights.
As we say at our house, "Hugs."
A lapel pin, excellent idea!
Judith wrote Germs:The Ultimate Weapon. (Biological Weapons and Americas Secret War). I bet she made alot of friends at the CIA during her time researching the book. Always the question arises, What did she know and when did she know it?
Yes, they were. But she was not towing the party line. No way they would back her up if she was not whole-heartedly presenting the left's agenda.
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