SLUDGE: JUDY'S COMING BACK TO THE TIMES ON MONDAY

[Halliburton]

www.drudgereport.com

FLASH: Reporter Judy Miller telling friends she will be back at NEW YORK TIMES on Monday... Developing...

:mad:

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Then we need to boycott the NYT's

Until Miller and her employer both resign.

[Lena inRI]

8. I'm already boycotting NYT "Not Your Truth" newspaper. . .

In my mind's eye, the paper's corrupt captains are taking down the entire ship with them. . .

No longer "all the news that's fit to print."

Now they are:

"All the news that fits the spin."

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. me too.

I even wrote their editors about why. The only thing I got was a call letting me resubscribe and a new and improved price.

At least the trib editbots wrote back after they endorsed Bush. (when I dropped them)

[tiptoe]

12. One writer's letter to Sulzberger, published Nov 3:

"Perhaps you've seen this:"

Published on Thursday, November 3, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
Why I Canceled The New York Times
by John Atcheson

Dear Mr. Sulzberger:

There's been a lot of moaning and gnashing of teeth about the fall in circulation among major newspapers, including yours. I regret to inform you, you just lost another customer. Allow me to explain why.

The Times' 11/2 coverage of the Senate private session forced by Rule 21 was among the most biased I've encountered by a major newspaper and I'm 56 and read several papers a day, so that's a large sample over a very long time.

"Partisan Quarrel Forces Senators to Bar the Doors" doesn't even approximate the nature of the issue being raised.

Placing the story in the lower left hand corner doesn't assign it the importance it deserves.

"Democrats Force Reckoning of Pre-War Intelligence" would describe the content and its import far more accurately.

And for the record, the lead is not Bill Frist's anger -- it's what you chose to split in half, burying the important part on Page 14. To wit: Pat Roberts has slow-walked an examination of whether and how the administration skewed intelligence in the run-up to the Iraqi War.

Lying the nation into a war is a big deal. A very big deal. The soon to be indicted Mr. Frist's anger is not.

...

The press was granted special status in the First Amendment because the founding fathers believed an informed citizenry was vital to a functioning democracy. That special status came with a codicil -- the duty to report the truth (not, as the Times seems to think, the duty to protect reporters who assist in spreading lies).

...

When you are replaced, Mr. Sulzberger, I will consider reading the Times again.

Until then, Good night and good luck.

John Atcheson's writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the San Jose Mercury News, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, as well as in several policy journals.")

[Vanje]

2. is she going back to clean out her desk?

?

[MADem]

9. You beat me to it! Here's your last paycheck, and a cardboard box!

Turn in your pass, the guard will escort you to the door. Buh-BYE!!!

[EFerrari]

3. I hope she's delusional again or that Sludge is wrong again. n/t

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[Botany]

5. Sure and I will playing linebacker for Ohio State this afternoon.

[tularetom]

6. Wonder what she threatened them with

This should make for some interesting columns from other NYT staffers who were outspoken and unanimous in their belief that she needed to be shitcanned for the good of the paper, but I remember reading that management was more scared of her than of losing their credibility.

BTW thanks for reading that shit so the rest of us don't have to but be careful - it'll rot your brain.

[Pithy Cherub]

7. Judy, the *journalist* janitor is morphing into an NYT's reporter

and the NYT's is allowing such a disgrace to work there. (Blair had to leave.) Hopefully it's just to clean out her desk. Egads, the NYT's is still racing to the bottom. :eyes:

[Gman]

11. self delete

responded to the wrong link

[Swamp Rat]

13. More Fudge from Sludge

[IChing]

14. Good, I'm so glad that I can once again read her stories and the NYTs

has once again reached the high-point of journalistic standards knowing that they have raise their level of independent reporting to the level it was when she was writing unbiased reports on the build up to war.


do I need to put the correct smilie in?...I mean really?