Judith Miller not hopeful for FoxNews.com reporter facing jail time for not revealing source
Source: Fox News (not The Onion)
I had a very similar situation to Janas, Miller said Monday. Jana broke a very important story in this case, but nevertheless I was faced with the same choice and I made the same decision that she seems to be making.
If were dependent on what the government tells us, the public never really gets to know what it needs to know about a situation, Miller said. And we cant do our jobs without investigative reporting. That is, without going out and talking to people whom perhaps the government doesnt want us to talk to, to give the public the full story, which is very much what Jana did and I tried to do.
Miller continued: But if we dont have that personal relationship and a relationship of trust with our sources, people wont tell us things, because they really are risking their careers when they tell us something that perhaps the government doesnt want us to know.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/08/judith-miller-not-hopeful-for-foxnewscom-reporter-facing-jail-time-for-not/
"similar situation" ...???? REALLY?!?!? ....You didn't break any story you filed their talking points and got them onto the NY stinkin' TIMES above the fold. "the government doesnt want us to talk to" -- THE GOVERNMENT WAS WHO YOU WERE WORKING FOR!!!
"personal relationship'?
You went into jail in the summer. It is fall now. You will have stories to cover Iraqi elections and suicide bombers, biological threats and the Iranian nuclear program. Out west, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work to life.
--Scooter Libby's love letter to Judith Miller
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)Someone should remove the corpse.
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)I think the entire point of FOX is to punish viewers for knowing anything
underpants
(182,281 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)..." why are they giving Bush such a hard time in the media?" and "Why are they not giving Obama a harder time on this?".
zbdent
(35,392 posts)Bet they get cash straight from Murdoch, on that crew ...
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)having a safest abortion procedures show.
PolitFreak
(236 posts)I think I'd get insta-banned if I described her, using the right words.
pacalo
(24,721 posts)Their major problem is that most of us aren't as stupid as they obviously think we are.
(My) Translation:
You went into jail in the summer. It is fall now: You'll be getting out of jail soon; stick it out because... You will have stories to cover Iraqi elections and suicide bombers, biological threats and the Iranian nuclear program...and we're counting on your high-profile standing to deliver our neocon messaging when you get out. Don't blow it by naming any names. Out west, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work to life: The neocon cabal has wined & dined you. They are deeply connected & will toe the line if they are betrayed. Don't talk -- & you'll live.
alfredo
(60,065 posts)rocktivity
(44,555 posts)and possible undercover CIA spook!
rocktivity
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)Javaman
(62,444 posts)and hopefully at some point, it will eventually catch up to here.
You know in that war criminal accessory store of way.
Figaro78
(37 posts)...with this blood-spattered horror and deal with her the same way they dealt with Reagan and Thatcher...dementia and death.