PULP FICTION: JUDY MILLER

PULP FICTION: JUDY MILLER When People Ask Why Judith Miller Is in Jail in Regard to the Rove Plame Novak Cooper Fiasco when she didn’t write about Plame, some say Miller is a martyr to the First Amendment. Some say, no, she doesn’t want to take the Fifth. Some say somebody in government should go to jail for the Plame affair because of what it reveals about the Bush Administration’s obsession with Iraq and WMD.  Somebody who works for the Bush administration is already in jail for Plame, Iraq and WMD: Judy Miller.

THE NEW YORK TIMES MAY SIGN HER PAYCHECKS, But Judith Miller “Journalist” has worked for the White House for quite some time.  Most people just didn’t know it. Most people still don’t want to know it.  The real DOUBLE SECRET story of Plame Rove Etc TM is “journalists” get paid with the white they crave, access to government officials for “stories” on “background” that bring to the foreground whatever truths, lies, or spins  the “off the record” source wants to get out there.  The “reporter” who so wants to be a player ends up played. We end up screwed, unaware until too late that this is what happens when newsbreakers are embedded with newsmakers more deeply than we know.

IT’S NOT JUST JUDY MILLER AT THE NEW YORK TIMES, the former paper of record with a  new record for mistruths, spun candy stories and out right lies all not fit to print.  Try not to eat before reading ELISABETH BUMILLER.

AND IT IS NOT JUST THE NEW YORK TIMES.  The mainstream is full of so many  poisonous little toads.  Look how they jump for RECOGNITION at every opportunity, the kiss that would make a toad a prince.

THE REAL STORY OF JUDY MILLER is told between the words, between the sheets she embedded herself in  Her story is not the narrative of journalist for truth, but more film noir tragedy of those who fool themselves who fool us.

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[JAMES MOORE/HUFFINGTON POST]Okay. I couldn't stand it any longer. When I saw the quote today from a New York Times spokesperson about Judy Miller, I blew coffee through my nose. "Judy is an intrepid, principled, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has provided our readers with thorough and comprehensive reporting throughout her career." I am submitting the lengthy piece below to prove precisely otherwise.[HAT TIP: BLUE COLLAR POLITICS]

[NY METRO] The Judy Miller problem is complicated. That is, the very qualities that endeared Miller to her editors at the New York Times—her ambition, her aggressiveness, her cultivation of sources by any means necessary, her hunger to be first—were the same ones that allowed her to get the WMD story so wrong.  Miller is a star, a diva. She wrote big stories, won big prizes. Long before her WMD articles ran, Miller had become a newsroom legend—and for reasons that had little to do with the stories that appeared beneath her byline. . .. . .

According to a friend of Raines’s, as well as one of Miller’s colleagues at the paper, the editor pulled her aside after the attacks. “Go win a Pulitzer,” he told her.  For the next two years, she supplied the paper with a string of grim exclusives.  . . .
 
Of course, each of the stories contained important caveats. But together they painted a horrifying picture. There was just one problem with them: The vast majority of these blockbusters turned out to be wrong.


[MICHAEL MASSING/NY REVIEW OF BOOKS] In the period before the war, US journalists were far too reliant on sources sympathetic to the administration. Those with dissenting views—and there were more than a few—were shut out. Reflecting this, the coverage was highly deferential to the White House. This was especially apparent on the issue of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction—the heart of the President's case for war. Despite abundant evidence of the administration's brazen misuse of intelligence in this matter, the press repeatedly let officials get away with it.

"The fact that the United States so far hasn't found WMD in Iraq is deeply disturbing," she tells Massing. "It raises real questions about how good our intelligence was. To beat up on the messenger is to miss the point."[HAT TIP: SLATE]

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Comments

[Agi T. Prop]

Awesome work Joe. Except Uma Thurman is WAY hotter than Miss Miller. I would throw Judy in with Armstrong Williams and Jeff Gannon, just another shrill for the Bush regime.

[Matt]

Perfect match on the hair, though.

[cruelanimal]

Another terrific image from you. It certainly "broke my concentration."

[Jack Ballinger]

I would have thought it impossible for me to become even more interested in Judy Miller, but somehow your cover art has me seeing her in an unsavory, but rather fascinating new light.
Hmm?

[Diane]

How do you do it? Again and again...

[Chuck, Left Of Left]

"Somebody who works for the Bush administration is already in jail for Plame, Iraq and WMD: Judy Miller."

Yep.

Excellent work Joe! As usual!

[Thom]

You probably saw this already, but Gregory Palast did great column on the same: MR. ROVE AND THE ACCESS OF EVIL -- Tell us your "source," Judy

[ae]

'tik, I heart you.
xo,
ae

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