On Lecture Circuit, Judith Miller, David Brooks Explore Media's Problems

[DeepModem Mom]

Editor & Publisher: On Lecture Circuit, Judith Miller and David Brooks Explore Media's Myriad Problems
By Jay DeFoore
Published: January 16, 2006


NEW YORK Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who spent 85 days in jail last summer for refusing to reveal her source in the leaking of a CIA agent's identity, was greeted warmly Sunday at a talk she gave to the American Friends of Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Palm Beach, Fla.

Miller and Times Op-Ed columnist David Brooks addressed the audience on the topic of "The Reporter's Privilege Under Siege."...

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Buttressing her call for a federal shield law for reporters, Miller said that, "there is a full-scale assault by the federal government now on journalists in order to get to people who disclose classified information without authorization. … Unless you have people who disagree with government policy who work for the government come forward, we will be getting only the information that the government wants us to have," Miller was quoted as saying in the Daily News. "That's authorized news. That's not a free and independent press."

When talk turned to her pre-war reporting on WMD, which some argue helped win public support for the war in Iraq, Miller acknowledged that her stories were wrong but added, "journalists get things wrong every day."

The Palm Beach Post reported Miller's conviction that the press has not done a serious job of following up on those initial WMD stories. The paper indicates that Miller would like the media to seriously address why government intelligence was wrong and whether facts detrimental to the Bush administration's case for war were omitted....The Sun-Sentinel said Brooks diagnosed the media's problems as stemming from the "highly affluent, highly educated cultural ghetto" it operates in that has alienated it from large segments of the population....


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[LynneSin]

1. Wouldn't the media problem be assholes like them?

:shrug:

[leftchick]

2. well said Lynne

:rofl:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. i suspect they don't see the irony. not even coppery.

What was that Robert Wagner TV show, It Takes A Thief? Perhaps the circuit gods were thinking of that when they hired these two scum to do the tour.

[biscotti]

8. Yes

[tanyev]

3. Who's stupid enough to pay money to hear those two talk?

:shrug:

[sandnsea]

4. In other news

Jack Abramoff and Tom Delay Explore Lobbyists' Myriad Problems.

[Catrina]

9. *rotfl* ~ good one!

Judith Miller and Brooks = exhibits 1 and 2.

That woman has no shame. So the lies she told that got so many killed, was just a little mistake? Journalism as usual, according to Judy! Maybe, had she checked her her 'sources' against other 'sources'? Or is that too much to ask these days.

Never mind, why would she? She's 'one of them', their little propaganda dispensor who finally got caught. She's finally being open about her leanings, at least that's a step in the 'right' direction. And shame on the NYT for allowing her to 'run amok' for so long and with such disastrous results.

Now that she's been outed, we better be on the lookout for her replacement at the NYT and elsewhere. These people don't give up.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

6. Nice balance, on that panel...

[madinmaryland]

7. NO Judith . .

there is a full-scale assault by the republicans and corporate controlled media now on journalists, not the federal government.

STFU, riech wingers!

[zbdent]

10. Judy Miller is hilarious

I'm, of course, referring to the Gilda Radner skits on SNL ("The Judy Miller Show") . . . Guess that the uninformed little Brownie grew up to be an uninformed conservative whore . . .

[Loonman]

11. I'd like to throw rotten tomatoes at Judy

Scum queen...