In 94, John Miller was caught lying about statements to Newsday. The interview was taped.
The doyenne of police public relations, Alice McGillion, has some advice for the beleaguered NYPD spokesman, John Miller. "John has some rebuilding to do. He could have a credibility problem for the immediate future. It's nothing he can't overcome, but he obviously can't do what he did again."
McGillion filled the post Miller holds - the Police Department deputy commissioner for public information - for 10 years under two commissioners until she retired in 1990. Her comments refer to the flap Miller caused recently when he denied making statements to New York Newsday op-ed writer Gabriel Rotello about Daily News columnist Mike McAlary, only to discover Rotello had taped the telephone interview.
"Telling the truth or being perceived as telling the truth is elementary to the job," McGillion said. "The spokesman's voice reflects the credibility of the department."
Miller told Rotello that McAlary had asked him to "bail me out" after McAlary wrote a column calling the Prospect Park rape a hoax. Lab reports revealed semen had been found on the victim, but McAlary wrote another column contending top police sources told him the lab reports were wrong.
McAlary denied asking anyone to bail him out and last week Miller apologized to him for "mischaracterizing" their conversation and to Rotello for "challenging his credibility." Rotello said he accepted the apology; McAlary hasn't been heard from for the past few days. He didn't return calls.
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http://nypdconfidential.com/columns/1994/940530.html
CBS newsman John Miller is negotiating his exit as a senior correspondent to join his old friend Bill Bratton back at the Police Department, a reliable source tells me.
Miller has twice left the news business to serve under Bratton, first in the NYPD and later during the veteran top cop’s stint as commissioner of the Los Angeles Police Department.
In the past two years, Miller has been a prominent presence discussing national security and crime on “CBS This Morning” and on the “CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley.”
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http://pagesix.com/2013/12/16/cbs-newsman-miller-to-rejoin-bill-bratton-at-nypd/
What a great person to present a report. NOT!
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@digby56: Fair 'n balanced 60 Minutesby digby
I see that 60 Minutes continues to distinguish itself with unbiased reporting. This week they are going to feature interviews with the NSA's "task force" in the wake of reports about its review. It sounds like a very informative segment. Interesting that they picked John Miller to do the reporting on this.
Does everyone remember John Miller?
From 1995 to 2002, Miller was an ABC news correspondent. In 2002, he became co-anchor of the ABC News broadcast "20/20"...
Miller served briefly as New York City Deputy Police Commissioner from 1994-1995, after working as a television journalist at various networks and television stations from 1973 to 1994...
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/fair-n-balanced-60-minutes.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
To prove they are 'Fair & Balanced'
60 Minutes followed up John Miller's CIA puffpiece.
@FAIRmediawatch: CBS does PR for CIA.
CBS Does CIA PR
By Peter Hart
...From the introduction by CBS correspondent John Miller, viewers should have known this wasn't going to be a tough interview. Miller explained that Morell's tenure covered some key moments in US history, from the 9/11 attacks to the Obama era. And Morell wanted to talk–apparently about certain things more than others:
Mike Morell was deputy director of the CIA and gave us the only television interview he's ever done. He spoke to us, largely because he believes the very nature of the spy business keeps successes in the shadows, but often pushes failure into the bright lights.
Now, the reasons why Morell would want to do an interview shouldn't much matter–a journalist gets to raise questions regardless, especially ones about government "failures." But the CBS interview was more like a press briefing than an interview with a powerful figure who has never been asked questions by a TV journalist...
Why was the interview set up this CIA-friendly way? It might have something to do with the interviewer.
John Miller is a longtime reporter. But he has had other jobs, too; in 2003, he left journalism to work for the LAPD, and then took a job as the assistant director of public affairs at the FBI, a job that involved managing "relations with the news media." ...
http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/10/29/cbs-does-cia-pr/
With a puffpiece on the NSA.
Host Of '60 Minutes' NSA Segment Reportedly Eying NYPD Intel Job - TPMDC
No Question Now. '60 Minutes' is Deliberate Right-Wing Propaganda
So, if the 60 Minutes segment on the NSA were true . . .
'60 Minutes' Trashed For NSA Piece
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