Judith Miller's New Excuse: the "slanderous" bloggers destroyed her.

Slate ^ | March 16, 2006 | Jack Shafer

[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?

[Erasmus]

Pojama People

[bray]

Don't Fight the Power of the Blog!!

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters

[muir_redwoods]

"Miller describes to Vanity Fair the process by which the Pajama People destroyed her"

An obvious falsehood. Why, I don't even wear pajamas.

oops!

[P-40]

other bloggers start to fact check and then posts pointing out the errors spread like wild fire through the blogosphere.

That used to be the job of the editor. :)

[summer]

Re your post #81 - Interesting mention of FR and the Buckhead story there! Thanks for the link.

[mware]

[summer]

I think Sandrat beat ya to it -- see post #18. :)

[mware]

Yeah, but I have passing them out. I gave one to Curtis Sliawa that the Freedom Concert.

The last one I gave out was to Tony Snow who incidentally was the reporter who asked the question that lead to the first 'pajama' comment.

[Howlin]

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.

ROFLMAO............this is just TOO much!

Whiney Mary Mapes creepy lady!

[Lancey Howard]

If I recall, NOBODY tore her apart worse than Maureen Dowd.
Is Maureen a blogger now?

[Mo1]

Gee .. she sounds upset that she couldn't control us

Well Judy, life sucks .. you'll get over it

[Mo1]

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."

And .. do note that they believe us instead of their own reporting

That speaks Volumes .. LOL!

[AmishDude]

BTW, FR isn't among the list of blogs here. They're talking about Kos, DU, etc.

[beyond the sea]

Things would get instantly picked up, magnified, and volumized.

"magnified, and volumized" --- lol, a little redundant I'd say.

"volumized" -- first time I ever heard that word.

[beyond the sea]

She and Mary Mapes would make a lovely couple. ---

****

LOL.

[beyond the sea]

Why she does not name names when she discusses "bloggers" is sad, because she leaves much to conjecture, just as she has done in the Plame case.

That's why she belongs on the couch with Mapes.

[beyond the sea]

Man, I love that.

At a flea market, I found one of those little (around 36 inches in diameter) circular trampolines kids use to bounce up and down on. It has a nice leather-like border around the outside circumference. I'd like to get that picture of that baby and the wording around it, enlarged to the size of that trampoline.

It would be great.

[the invisib1e hand]

a wise friend once said, "the liberal media always eats its dead."

now that civility and veracity are quaint, distant memories, it must be more so.

[mo]

"She and Mary Mapes would make a lovely couple"....with Danny Rather....a reporters "Hall of Shame"...journalistic malpractice the pre-requisite for admission!!!!

[Pietro]

".....volumized"

Right there, that's it!

This kind of language short cut is "newspeak".

Damn what these people are doing to English!