Plame\Rove: Panel Discussion Provokes Heated Exchange (Video)

[WillyT]

Did you guys catch this? Just heard about this today on Morning Sedition. Videos at link below.

Panel:

NORMAN PEARLSTINE, Time Inc.
FLOYD ABRAMS, First Amendment Attorney
NICHOLAS LEMANN, Dean of Gradate School of Journalism at Columbia University
MICHAEL GOODWIN, NY Daily News
RICHARD COHEN, Washington Post
MICHAEL WOLFF, Vanity Fair
PAUL HOLMES, Reuters

ALSO PRESENT:

CATHERINE CRIER, Court TV Anchor


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NEW YORK (Court TV) — With New York Times reporter Judith Miller spending her 42nd day in jail for refusing to reveal a source, Court TV convened seven of the biggest names in the media industry to discuss journalists and their confidential sources Tuesday.

What followed was a lively, often belligerent debate that focused on Miller and the rest of the Valerie Plame investigation and was marked by recriminations, regrets and at least one profanity.

Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Norman Pearlstine told the moderator, Court TV anchor Catherine Crier, that while he stood by his decision to turn over his reporter's notes about a confidential source to the special prosecutor in the Plame case, he questioned whether the reporter, Matt Cooper, should have given the source, White House advisor Karl Rove, anonymity in the first place.

"A 90-second conversation with the president's spin doctor who is trying to undermine the workings of a whistle blower didn't deserve confidential source status," Pearlstine said.

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Link: http://www.courttv.com/news/2005/0816/panel_ctv.html

Gets a bit testy apparently.

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[WillyT]

1. So.... That Would Be A Yes, LOL ???

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[WillyT]

2. *tap, tap, tap* Hello... Is This Thing Working ???

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[sabra]

3. We are here, just alot going on today

thanks for the link. will check out video soon.

peace.

[WillyT]

5. Today ??? - There's A Lot Goin On Here Everyday, LOL !!!

Participating in DU has become a full-time job. Just wish it paid... and had a health plan... and a retirement...

:silly:

Hope ya enjoy the video!

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[Norquist Nemesis]

4. I'm sick of hearing boo-hoos for Miller!

(disclaimer: haven't looked at link yet)

Every night on Lou Dobbs, he ends his show with "XX days that Judith Miller has spent in jail protecting her confidential source in the Plame Case." :rolleyes:

IMO, her "source" doesn't qualify for confidentiality. And it is primarily BECAUSE she didn't write about it. Had she, then those she spoke with would be "sources" and could be covered by confidentiality. But since she didn't, it was a conversation that she should be spilling her guts to the grand jury about.

Just my two cents.

[Supersedeas]

9. A martyr for the Bushist dirty tricks squad

[AlCzervik]

6. The sound isn't working for me.

:-(

[Stephanie]

7. Pearlstine really gets it!

I'm surprised - he really sees the issue for what it is. A spin-doctor tries to enlist a journalist in spreading top-secret information. That's a crime, not a news leak.

[Kingshakabobo]

8. Thanks. I plan on watching it this evening @ home. n/t

[WillyT]

10. Kick !!!

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