Letting it rip against Miller, editors

It took a while, but the knives are finally coming out at The New York Times over its embattled reporter Judith Miller and her editors. Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote: "Sorely in need of a tight editorial leash, she (Miller) was kept on no leash at all, and that has hurt this paper and its trust with readers. She more than earned her sobriquet ‘Miss Run Amok.’ "
And noting Miller’s credibility problems, Dowd argued that Times management "should have nailed her to a chair and extracted the entire story of her escapade" before turning Miller’s case into a First Amendment battle.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee

5 Comments

  1. JUSTA GUY
    Posted October 25, 2005 at 5:48 am | Permalink

    They don’t have editors on the New York Times? Seems like a lot of this is on senior management.

  2. Joe Blow
    Posted October 25, 2005 at 7:55 am | Permalink

    Bad reporting at the NYTimes? Shocking!

  3. Joe Williams
    Posted October 25, 2005 at 8:23 am | Permalink

    Because she didn’t hurt the Bush Administration, that is why her fellow employees are upset.

  4. TRACY
    Posted October 25, 2005 at 10:45 am | Permalink

    I believe they are upset because Miller only has one thing she wants, and that’s the spotlight.That’s what the whole jail stay was about.I don’t think she gives a damn about right or wrong.

  5. Ian Santiago
    Posted October 25, 2005 at 7:33 pm | Permalink

    The Jew York Times is a joke and has been for some time now!