Judy Does Vegas: Homecoming for Miller, In Town To Pick Up SPJ Award

[Bumblebee]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001306763

By E&P Staff

Published: October 16, 2005 8:30 PM ET

NEW YORK "The Judith Miller circus moves to Las Vegas this week and figures to be the hottest news story around," columnist Norm Clarke wrote in Sunday's Las Vegas Review-Journal. That's because she's in her hometown to pick up the First Amendment Award at the Society of Professional Journalists Convention and National Journalism Conference at the Aladdin.

Clarke, in his Vegas Confidential column, quipped that Miller "may rewrite her speech after reading today's Times, in which colleagues cast her in a critical light.

[rocktivity]

1. Las Vegas isn't a place you think of as being a hometown

where children grow up and there are shockingly ordinary things like Seven-Elevens and Little Leagues and colleges and fire departments and synagogues.

The morning after I arrived in Aspen Colorado for a ski weekend, I was having breakfast and enjoying the view of the main drag and the mountain. I was actually stunned when a school bus full of little kids went by. And when a co-worker mentioned that she'd been born in Atlantic City, I got a mental picture of her popping out of a slot machine!

It's because they're all resort towns, I guess.

:headbang:
rocknation

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2. She's going to Vegas to see the Aspen leaves change color.

You know they're all connected at the roots.

[Carni]

5. Actually she's *out west where people vacation*

OK so maybe SHE doesn't vaca there but many do and if that is her hometown maybe she DOES vaca there?

Interesting devlopment IMO

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3. Although her father was Vegas entertainer Bill Miller, looks like she

grew up in Miami and LA:

Born in New York City, Ms. Miller grew up in Miami and Los Angeles, where she graduated from Hollywood High School. She attended Ohio State University, Bernard College and the Institute of European Studies at the University of Brussels. She received a bachelor's degree from Barnard College and a masters from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School in 1972. She serves as a member of the advisory committee of the Woodrow Wilson School and is active in the Council on Foreign Relations.

http://www.un.org/events/pressday2002/biographies.html

Born in New York, Miller grew up in Miami and Los Angeles, where she graduated from Hollywood High School. Her father, Bill Miller, was a Las Vegas entertainment icon. She graduated from Barnard College in 1969 and received a master's degree in public affairs from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. In 1971, while at Princeton, Miller traveled to Jerusalem to research a paper. She became fascinated with the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, and spent the rest of the summer traveling for the first time to Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller_%28journalist%29

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4. A First Amendment Award?

Odd, I thought the First Amendment had something to do with a free press, not denying and covering up your journalistic sins.

You'd think the Society of Professional Journalists would know better. But maybe their true profession is older than journalism.