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Wednesday, May 26, 2004
SHE WHOSE NAME MUST NOT BE
SPOKEN. The talk of the media world over the next few days is
going to be today's mea culpa in the New York Times
about the paper's gullible coverage of Iraq's weapons capabilities
and terrorist ties in the run-up to the war. Headlined
"From
the Editors," the piece
admits to mistakes on the part of reporters and editors, and to the
same overreliance on the charlatan Iraqi exile leader Ahmad Chalabi
that helped goad the White House into this terrible, unnecessary
war.
Although the piece, as Editor
& Publisher has already
observed, makes no mention
of Chalabi's favorite Times reporter, Judith Miller, you've
got to wonder whether her career can survive. It would be ironic if
Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, et
al., whose love affair with Chalabi led to the deaths of hundreds
of Americans and thousands of Iraqis, get off scot-free while Miller
pays a higher price. Then again, despite the Times'
well-documented problems of the past several years, it still has
higher standards than the Bush White House.
Miller's principal tormenter, Jack
Shafer, wrote
about the pending "Editor's Note" yesterday in Slate. Although
he closes with "And so ends The Judith Miller Chronicles (I hope),"
presumably he'll have more to say today.
Romenesko is gathering commentary
on the subject here.
WINING, DINING, AND NOT
FILING. Walter Brooks has an
amusing take on an
off-the-record soirée at the Kennedy compound attended by
about 100 journalists, and apparently mentioned by only two smallish
papers in the western part of the state.
Media Log was not invited. And
that's on the record.
A FIASCO FORETOLD. Boston
Globe columnists Scot
Lehigh and Steve
Bailey today both blast the
poor planning that may result in apocalyptic gridlock during the
Democratic National Convention. Bailey is angry - I mean,
really angry - and thus more entertaining.
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Right on brother! Judith Miller should be fired.
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