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October 24, 2005
Juan Cole and Steve Gilliard on the Judith Miller Saga
Juan Cole has the sharpest analysis I've seen of why the NYT allowed Judith Miller to hijack their Iraq coverage: they were cowed by the attacks from Fox News. They were getting repreatedly slammed from the right for not cheerleading Bush's war mobilization, and they figured Miller's reportage would appease the critics calling them traitors. They problem was, just on the level of facts, they had been right, while their critics - and Miller - were full of it.
See also Steve Gilliard's great coverage of the battles within the Times and the rest of the Plame drama, featuring Photoshopped pix of Miller, Cheney, Rove and Libby in "Stop Snitching" t-shirts.
Posted by tedf at October 24, 2005 10:33 AM
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