It's Miller's Time To Fly

By: Vaughn Ververs
Topics: Other Guys' Problems

Judith Miller, high profile reporter for the New York Times and central figure in the investigation of the Valerie Plame leak and indictment of Lewis "Scooter" Libby has retired, effective immediately the paper has announced. In a statement, New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said, "We are grateful to Judy for her significant personal sacrifice to defend an important journalistic principle. I respect her decision to retire from The Times and wish her well."

Times Executive Editor Bill Keller added, "In her 28 years at The Times, Judy has participated in some great, prize-winning journalism. She displayed fierce determination and personal courage both in pursuit of the news and in resisting assaults on the freedom of news organizations to report. She carries our best wishes into the next phase of her career."

Are we just self-centered or is it ironic that Miller's retirement comes on the day Mary Mapes kicked off her book tour?

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by djman1141 November 12, 2005 4:04 PM EST: Yesterday, "Punch," or is it "Pinch" Sulzberger [?] gave an hour-long exhibition of corporate high-fiving with a sympathetic Charlie Rose, who may be angling for an NYT column given his unaggressive give-and-take with the unesteemed NYT Publisher. Miller paid a price demanded by the WMD revisionists who with 20/20 hindsight claim that everyone should have known about the disappearance of Saddam's huge inventory of nasty weapons. Sen. McCain continues to be correct. The UN was ready to lift the ineffective sanctions in place in 2003 and by now, Saddam would be flush with umpty billions looking for nasty weapons to buy and nukes to develop. But that would require historical honesty, a trait totally absent from the left-wing of the Democratic Party. I predict McCain will be President in 2009, barring health issues or a political accident.; Reply to this comment


by djman1141 November 12, 2005 3:55 PM EST: Judging from Mapes' TV appearances, her "book tour" won't sell many copies. What an angry, delusional misfit of an ideologue! Like all left-wing liberals, unapologetic, unaccountable, and dead wrong! She should've settled down and had kids. Oops, perhaps better that she didn't and is now a nasty old spinster!; Reply to this comment


by wintermute1-2009 November 10, 2005 5:59 AM EST: Totally self-centered, Dude. We got two rotten apples who fell off the same tree of: (1) Conceit, based on a mixture of your name being in print or on the air a lot and being solicited for publicity by public figures and celebrities. Is it because you're so wonderful or because your company buys ink by the barrel? (2) Excessive job security, either stemming from your own celebrity or the sponsorship of an entrenched higher-up. (3) Insularity, worsened by a guild mentality, as you cultivate important people as sources and get into incestuous relationships with them, forgetting the most important connection of all is with the PUBLIC. Why did the most famous line from the movie _Network_ just crowd into my mind? Whew! Lighten up, Wintermute. Go work on your Daily Docket blog's TV News Babe contest!; Reply to this comment


by beatlesrit-2009 November 10, 2005 12:12 AM EST: Judith Miller, has become the news and like fresh paint vapors, they all disappear eventually..... Scotty; Reply to this comment


by jaguar0 November 9, 2005 8:52 PM EST: If I "HAD SOURCES", inside the NYT, I would say that Miller, was given a choice? To be publicly fired, for the hell, that she has given the NYT, or leave, with everyone full of wonder, on why she left? By the way, Art, remember what your doctor told you about eating to many eggs and your count? You been a bad boy!; Reply to this comment