"Keller senses that history will judge him, Sulzberger harshly re. Miller"

[DeepModem Mom]

Editor&Publisher: WEEKEND LETTERS: Why Bill Keller Wants to Turn The Page on Judy Miller
By E&P Staff
Published: April 16, 2006
NEW YORK

Today's mail bag brings, among others, a response from William E. Jackson to our article on April 12 covering New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller's online reply to a reader re: the aftermath of the Judith Miller controversy. Jackson penned about a dozen columns for E&P on the Miller affair starting in mid-2003.


It's a Little Galling

Out of the blue comes yet another suspect Bill Keller defense of how he handled the Judith Miller WMD misreporting scandal; and another lame rationalization of The Times’ role in the Plame/Libby/Miller legal case.

On the one hand, Keller argues, the NYT front page is not so influential as to mightily help set the stage for war in Iraq; and, on the other hand, the paper is obviously so much more credible and important than those damn bloggers. Let's not forget that Keller said, refering to Miller in New York magazine in 2004, "It's a little galling to watch her pursued by some of these armchair media ethicists who have never ventured into a war zone or earned the right to carry Judy's laptop."

It is clear Keller senses that history will likely judge harshly his and publisher Sulzberger’s handling of Miller, from 2003 to 2005. Moreover, his repeated mea culpas are a sign that there is still real unhappiness in The Times family -- and obviously among the readers -- over the WMD/Miller stain. For it serves to partially blot out the impressively revitalized coverage of national security matters by the re-organized Washington bureau.

In responding to continuing critical queries about Miller's sensational but incurious reporting on the quest for WMD in Iraq, and spotty-at-best coverage of the Plame-Libby legal case, Keller “sighs” and plaintively asks what more could an executive editor have done? Quote: “I can’t imagine that there is anything to say about the Judy Miller episode that I have not already said…over and over.” Over and over, indeed, with little variation and scant imagination, on one of the darkest chapters in recent American journalism....

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002344809

[annabanana]

1. aw....poor Keller

no really

poor thing

I'm series
:P

[NYC]

2. Would that be the laptop filled with lies?

...Let's not forget that Keller said, refering to Miller in New York magazine in 2004, "It's a little galling to watch her pursued by some of these armchair media ethicists who have never ventured into a war zone or earned the right to carry Judy's laptop."...

And probably the last email to David Kelly, mysterious British suicide?

[endarkenment]

3. Fine. He can have a cell right next to his other war crimes convicts.

Every last one of them needs to be held accountible for what they have done. The retribution must be so severe that it will be many decades before the elites dare to pull this level of vile crap again.

[blm]

4. Keller's fooling himself - it's WAY more than Judy - they killed stories

throughout 2004 so they could help Bush stay in the WH. They had the story on Bush being wired for the debate and wouldn't print it. They also had the NSA spying story and held that, too.

They also knew Rove leaked FOR the WH since it first happened, and held the truth for two years while letting Rove's operatives spread lies about Joe Wilson.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

5. Ummm.... Duh! What a maroon.

[Mandate My Ass]

6. Huh? Blogs offer harebrained speculation?

Judy Miller, a reporter for a world-class newspaper with fact-checking capabilities out the wazoo, was Chalabi's stenographer and published the rambling fantasies of some loon job discredited alcoholic by the name of Curveball, who intel agencies wouldn't trust to get the time of day right. But the bloggers, who've gotten it right from the very beginning, aren't fit to carry Judy's laptop? Get a clue, dude. :puke: