NYT: Time reporter took buyout after 'dispute' over role in leak case

[kpete]

Times reveals new scoop: Time reporter took buyout after 'dispute' over role in leak case

RAW STORY
Published: Thursday April 27, 2006

A single sentence in Thursday's New York Times reveals a new facet of the journalism angle of the CIA leak case -- that the Time reporter who Karl Rove's lawyer thought would help save his client from indictment departed Time Magazine and took a "buyout package."http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Times_reveals_new_scoop_Time_reporter_0427.html

In a telephone interview on Wednesday, Ms. Novak, who no longer works for Time, said she had not had any contact with Mr. Fitzgerald since her deposition in December. She left the magazine after a dispute over her role in the case, taking a buyout package last month. Mr. Cooper also recently moved from his position as a White House correspondent to become the political editor of the magazine's Web site.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/27/washington/27inquire.html?hp&ex=1146196800&en=ccda672cc3200db7&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[katinmn]

1. How cozy

[lonestarnot]

2. chummy chum chum

[peacetalksforall]

3. No doubt about it = right wing partnerships to own you.

The tv networks were ALL recruited to the right wing.
The biggest papers were ALL recruited to the right wing.
The most popular well known news magazines were ALL recruited to the right wing.

We have multiple things to do.

Teach which networks, papers, and magazines to disbelieve.
Teach which networks, papers, and magazines are wroth promoting.
Keep up on who are the exceptions within each group.
Don't fool ourselves that these media outlets will change with the fall of the PNAC adminstration because there will always be the barons who are behind our containment.
Spend more time and effort following and supporting the rising tide of alternative networks, papers, magazines.

All the same can be said about think tanks, research groups, and foundations.