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Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Enough is Enough
I'm about as strong a believer in the importance of a strong, independent media (which we haven't had in a long time), but nothing Judith Miller is doing right now is defending that principle. It still remains to be seem whether she was involved in leaking Valerie Plame's name herself, rather than giving it to Rove or Libby. (And her motivation to become a martyr to avoid being associated with her odious WMD reporting is clear). But now it appears that, by protecting a source that was engaging in a partisan attack of Joe Wilson, Miller also ran afoul of New York Times policy, as noted in this article by the NYT Public Editor this past Sunday:
One of the freelancers with several Times articles to his credit recently used a
pejorative quotation from an anonymous source that ran afoul of one of The
Times's guidelines - as was duly noted in a subsequent editors' note in the
paper. "The Times's policy does not permit the granting of anonymity to
confidential news sources 'as cover for a personal or partisan attack,'
" the note said.
The freelancer acknowledged to me, "I should have known the rules. Technically, I should have gone to the Web and read the rules."
Yep. Here they are. So why is the New York Times still standing behind Miller?
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