Breaking: Judy and Bill Keller in a shouting match over mea culpa

[Halliburton]

The New York Times gave Judith Miller 3,454 words in Sunday's paper to defend her actions in the Valerie Plame affair. But we hear Miller didn't appreciate the scourging she got in an accompanying 5,805-word analysis of "The Miller Case." We're told that colleagues heard Miller and executive editor Bill Keller screaming at each other in the hours before the story went to bed. (A Times spokeswoman declined to comment on whether Miller and Keller had traded words.)

Miller is said to have implored Keller to tone down the piece's criticism of her. Nevertheless, it reported that she was "a divisive figure," and that in 2003 Keller told her she could no longer cover Iraq and weapons issues because her reporting about Saddam's supposed weapons of mass destruction was so far off the mark.

Whatever her sins, Miller got a standing ovation from more than half the crowd yesterday when she received the First Amendment Award from the Society of Professional Journalists in Las Vegas. Miller, who once dubbed herself "Miss Run Amok" because "I can do whatever I want," is due to testify today before the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of a federal shield law.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/357111p-304334c....

[bryant69]

1. Well she's just following the example of the President

Look i'm willing to admit the possibility of mistakes, but i don't want any discussion of any actual mistakes.

Bryant
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[nadinbrzezinski]

2. pass that damn popcorn

this is better than Survivor I tell you.. I wonder who will be voted off teh Island first, or what rats will flee first?

[ewagner]

3. still love the part that says

"...Miller got a standing ovation from more than half the crowd yesterday when she received the First Amendment Award..."



Now they're turning on each other

oboyoboyoboyoboyoboy....

[yellowcanine]

5. Would that be half standing or half not standing?

[yellowcanine]

4. Judy should have been let go after the WMD/embed fiasco. She

has zero journalistic ethics and the sit in jail caper was all about Judy, not journalistic freedom.

[ewagner]

8. Right..not 1st Amendment

but the 5th Amendment!

[Supersedeas]

6. isn't more than half of a partial audience almost like a mandate or

somethin

[npincus]

7. Whatta CREEP.. so she "Knows" that Cheney wasn't aware of the Plame

discussions? How does SHE know? Her certainty is VERY suspicious... how can one person KNOW what another person KNOWS if they have not discussed the matter directly with said person?

Libby and Miller are a tag team.

[mzmolly]

9. "First Amendment Award??"

She should get the award for the most kiss ass propaganda.

[Marr]

10. You know- I can understand the argument that Miller's case was

one of those battles for the rights of journalists, but a standing ovation is ludicrous. At the very best, she's one of those extreme cases where you *might* argue the principle, but the actual disputant is so thoroughly below contempt that it pains you to do so.

It's like the ACLU's arguing for the KKK's right to march in parades. That sort of thing. They'd never give the fucking KKK a standing ovation, because they're contemptible.

[marylanddem]

11. Good analogy

I'm a journalist & the whole "revealing a source" thing gave me a queasy feeling - but my disgust at Judith Miller - her grandstanding for the principle - has overcome my quease. She is an embarrassment, a shame, and should not have gotten any congratulations on her self-aggrandizing jail term. ESPECIALLY since she doesn't remember her source of the "Valerie Flame" name anyway. What a load of shit.

[sam sarrha]

12. it fits... 'prostitution' is legal there..