NO WORD FROM JUDY

ON HOW SHE COVERED her ass far more than she ever covered a story. The meaning embedded in the embedded “reporter” Judy Miller’s dying swan song farewell is lost beneath the sheets of continuing self aggrandizement. [story]

On July 6 I chose to go to jail to defend my right as a journalist to protect a confidential source, the same right that enables lawyers to grant confidentiality to their clients, clergy to their parishioners, and physicians and psychotherapists to their patients. Though 49 states have extended this privilege to journalists as well, for without such protection a free press cannot exist, there is no comparable federal law. I chose to go to jail not only to honor my pledge of confidentiality, but also to dramatize the need for such a federal law.

THE DRAMA QUEEN the Diva of Disinformation TM sings the same song until its end.  This one last note held onto is slightly cracked.  And you would have to be hitting the crack pipe hard to believe it.

A FEW MORE DISCORDANT NOTES
[empty wheel/ The Next Hurrah] One of the big sticking points, in the severance negotiations between the NYT and Judy Miller, was Judy's demand that she get to answer her critics with one last op-ed in the NYT, published today in letter form.
I gotta say, she needn't have bothered.
The letter does little to refute Miller's critics. As Anonymous Liberal points out, Judy's claims she was protecting the First Amendment are clearly bogus. And Jane slaps down the rest of the farewell.

THE HERETIK NOTES Miller says "the answer to bad information is more reporting."  Her swan song cries out with a bent note: the answer to bad information is only bad reporting.

THE SONG DOES NOT REMAIN THE SAME 
A LOW NOTE [Talk Left] The article at the Times website about Miller's departure from the paper is headlined, "Reporter Agrees to Leave Paper." That is a further slam to Miller in that it implies she was asked to leave and agreed. If the departure was her idea, wouldn't the headline simply read "Reporter Leaves Paper"?

Comments

[Craig McDonough]

I was trying real hard not to be snarky about Miller's exit lines.

But there are others who do snark so much better than I.

My take is at Miller's Farewell Opus

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