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Bye Bye Judy

By TChris, Section Media
Posted on Wed Nov 09, 2005 at 12:54:32 PM EST
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Judith Miller and the NY Times have reached a severance agreement that ends Miller's checkered career at the Times.

Under the agreement, Ms. Miller will retire from the newspaper, and The Times will print a letter she wrote to the editor explaining her position. Ms. Miller originally demanded that she be able to write an essay for the paper's Op-Ed page refuting the allegations against her, the lawyers said. The Times refused that demand - Gail Collins, editor of the editorial page, said, "We don't use the Op-Ed page for back and forth between one part of the paper and another" - but agreed to let her to write the letter.

Miller's farewell letter will appear in tomorrow's Times -- although not in the funny pages, where it will likely belong.

Update: (TL) Arianna says good riddance. She points out the flap between Miller and Bill Keller about his use of the word "entanglement" in describing Miller and Libby's relationship, which Miller perceived had an illicit connotation.

My thoughts: Libby and Miller may not have had sex, but they sure did scr*w each other. From Miller's point of view, Libby's withholding of a personal waiver caused her to do four months in jail. From Libby's point of view, Miller's ultimate testimony caused him to be indicted.

There are no winners here.

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    Bye Bye Judy | 12 comments (12 topical)
    Re: Bye Bye Judy (none / 0) (#1)
    by squeaky on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:53 PM EST
    Yahoo! One down and one to go. Now if Sulzberger resigns I will resubscribe.

    Re: Bye Bye Judy (none / 0) (#2)
    by profmarcus on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:53 PM EST
    sorry but i had to chuckle at your use of the term "funny pages..." my grandmother used to use that term and i haven't heard it for so many years i couldn't even begin to count... ah, memories...!

    Re: Bye Bye Judy (none / 0) (#3)
    by Dadler on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:53 PM EST
    Severence? How much does she have to pay them? Ahem.

    Re: Bye Bye Judy (none / 0) (#4)
    by Quaker in a Basement on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:53 PM EST
    It's beyond me why she has standing to negotiate the terms of her departure. They owe her nothing.

    Re: Bye Bye Judy (none / 0) (#5)
    by cpinva on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:53 PM EST
    i prefer the term "multi-colored editorials" myself. but hey, that's just me! arianna huffington castigating anyone for poor "journalistic" standards is the proverbial pot calling the kettle black. which party is she hitching her wagon to these days? if she's among the best that liberal media has to offer, we're a doomed bunch. hmmmm, didn't ms. miller just recently receive some kind of "first amendment" award, from some reporter's group? why, yes, i believe she did. apparently, that group's standards aren't very high. can you say "crackerjacks box" boys and girls? i knew that you could. she may have screwed mr. libby, but we, her readers, got sloppy seconds.

    Re: Bye Bye Judy (none / 0) (#6)
    by jimcee on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:53 PM EST
    Profmarcus, my gramma always called them the funnies and that is how I learned to read before kindergarten. L'il Iodine, Blondie, Peanuts, L'il Abner, Pogo, Prince Valiant et al were my primers. She was a one-room school house teacher and a darned good one. I still often call them the funny papers much to my wife's disdain.

    Re: Bye Bye Judy (none / 0) (#7)
    by jimcee on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:53 PM EST
    Sqeaky, I like to know why you think Pinch Sulzberger should resign as he is the owner, not an employee and he seems to carry a lot of water for the Left. Perhaps he could sell the paper to someone who knows how to make money in the print media world such as Mr Murdoch? Silly I know but what is your point?

    Re: Bye Bye Judy (none / 0) (#8)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:56 PM EST
    "I like to know why you think Pinch Sulzberger should resign as he is the owner" Yeah, that's the problem. Same reason why the Chicago LA Times is going out of existence. It is not possible to get high subscriptions if no one trusts what you say, because you helped a maniac terrorize your five year old into nightmares, and your seven year old crapped her pants because of FALSE THREATS, and your grandmother might have lived another five years if she hadn't blown her aorta screaming 'Not again!' Who invites someone who does that into your house? My canaries won't even sit on the stuff.

    Re: Bye Bye Judy (none / 0) (#9)
    by squeaky on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:56 PM EST
    QiaB-I believe that Miller's contract and union backing makes outright firing her next to impossible. And then there is her pal Sulzberger who she is clearly quite "entangled" with. jc- The olny reason Miller got away with her behavior as self proclaimed "Miss Run Amok" was because Sulzberger has a 'special' relationship with Miller. He created the monster and he should leave with her. If the times wants to regain its credibility he must step down. I am sure that his resignation would also bolster the moral of the staff as they felt, on a daily basis, the pinch of the double standard Sulzberger perpetuated regarding Miller.

    Re: Bye Bye Judy (none / 0) (#10)
    by Quaker in a Basement on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:57 PM EST
    I believe that Miller's contract and union backing makes outright firing her next to impossible.
    The New York Freaking Times can't outright fire a reporter for printing lies in the paper? Refresh my memory about what happened to Mr. Blair.

    Re: Bye Bye Judy (none / 0) (#11)
    by squeaky on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:57 PM EST
    QiaB-Blair admitted lying/wrongdoing while Miss Run Amok and The Chimp King et.al. have done no such thing. Miller still feels justified in promoting the war, no remorse, only a victim of 'faulty intelligence'. We know that she is a lying neocon trollop but no one has proved it. I maintain that the NYT would not be able to fire her. An easier task would be impeaching Bush and we know that that is not going to happen until we control the House of Representatives.

    Re: Bye Bye Judy (none / 0) (#12)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:58 PM EST
    Squeak writes:
    We know that she is a lying neocon trollop but no one has proved it.
    There you are gentle people. If you think you can work with the Left, you are wrong. Guess we can get rid of those judges, juries, etc,.... promarcus - You remember hearing about the "funny pages?" Heck, I thought you were on them.

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