Poor Judith Miller's new alibi, the blogs done her in

[dajoki]

Slate
http://www.slate.com//id/2138161

Judith Miller's New Excuse
The former Times reporter tells Vanity Fair the "slanderous" bloggers destroyed her.

By Jack Shafer
Posted Thursday, March 16, 2006, at 8:11 PM ET

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. Brenner, acknowledging she's a friend of the former New York Times reporter, writes that while still in Iraq in May 2003, Miller became a "major target in the intense public anger directed at Bush's war, owing to her reports that Saddam Hussein was producing weapons of mass destruction."

The ones tossing the fire were those dastardly—but unnamed—bloggers, according to Miller. Upon returning to New York later in May, Miller met with the Times' two top editors, Howell Raines and Gerald Boyd, who were then battling a staff revolt triggered by the Jayson Blair scandal. They acknowledged the "flak" her stories had gotten and told her foreign editor Roger Cohen did not want her to go back to Iraq. Cohen opposed her return because, as he tells Brenner, "There were concerns about her sources and her sourcing." Still, Miller managed a quick trip to Iraq.

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.)http://www.slate.com/id/2138161/sidebar/2138205

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.

[bluestateguy]

1. Corporate media reporters hate bloggers

They feel threatened by bloggers, and they should.

[sam sarrha]

2. sounds like a reason to regulate.....

[rocktivity]

3. What blogger tried to suborn you in TREASON, Judy?

What blogger had you filing false stories that led to an uncessary war?

:mad:
rocknation

[CoffeeCat]

4. How boring are these psychopaths?

Typical of the psychopathic personalities who sold us a war based on lies. They take no responsibility for their own failures and their own horrific actions. It's always someone else's fault and they're always the victim of someone.

If the precise truth about Judy Miller unfolded--complete with videotapes--she would be brought down as a warmongering, PNAC Bushbot who helped marketeer this country into an unnecessary, lie-based war. Thousands of US soldiers and Iraqi innocents have died because of the Iraq war--and Judy worked feverishly to hoodwink us into supporting it.

Still, she's the victim.

These people have no conscience. They lack humanity.

While Judy points finger, many die horrible deaths across the ocean. Does she care? Does she ever stop to ponder the role she played (and continues to play) in the deaths of so many and in the pain of their families?

No. Instead she chooses to focus on herself--and point fingers at the blogs who treated her so unfairly.

[dajoki]

6. kind of reminds you...

of someone else who can't remember any mistakes he made.

[dajoki]

5. never mentioned before...

If nasty bloggers played such a crucial role in her downfall, why is Miller only now bringing them up? She never mentioned them in her 1,781-word interview with Lou Dobbs in October 2005, nor in her 6,517-word interview with Larry King in November 2005. Seth Mnookin's January 2006 Vanity Fair feature about her demise missed the blogger angle, as did Franklin Foer's June 2004 profile in New York.

A lame excuse? A case of recovered memory? Or something worse?

http://www.slate.com//id/2138161

[EST]

7. And to think of those slender, beautiful, bloody hands...

If her name were Abu or Hussein, she'd be prosecuted for complicity, before, during, and after, in the brutal, senseless murder of nearly two...hundred...thousand innocent people. Had she any honor or sense of decency, she would give back her thirty pieces of tainted silver and seek solace in a hank of rope and a gnarled, obscure tree branch. Sometimes I wish I were religious and believed in a hell or Karma or something that could come close to adequate repayment. I am saddened at my own vindictiveness.

[dajoki]

8. don't be saddened...

i think it's more frustration and helplessness than vindictiveness.

[EST]

9. Thanks for trhe comfort.

Iam a big, strong, powerful man, who has cried more tears in the last three years than in the previous fifty.

[dajoki]

10. you sound like me n/t

[IndianaGreen]

11. Judy Miller is welcome to return to Iraq any day

She should drive a convertible flying the American and Israeli flags through the streets of Fallujah.

[dajoki]

12. i'll chip in for airfare n/t