New York Times Reporter Miller Is in Talks Over Her Job Status

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New York Times Reporter Miller Is in Talks Over Her Job Status
By JOE HAGAN
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
October 26, 2005; Page B3

New York Times reporter Judith Miller has begun discussing her future employment options with the newspaper, including the possibility of a severance package, a lawyer familiar with the matter, said yesterday.

The discussion about her future comes several days after the public rupture of the relationship between the Times and Ms. Miller, a 28-year veteran of the paper. Both the editor and the publisher of the Times have expressed regret for their unequivocal support for Ms. Miller when she spent 85 days in jail for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury investigating the unmasking of a Central Intelligence Agency operative.

The negotiations began with a face-to-face meeting Monday morning between Ms. Miller and the publisher, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., said the lawyer familiar with the situation. A spokeswoman for the New York Times declined to comment. Ms. Miller didn't return calls.

Mr. Sulzberger and New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller both indicated they wished they had known more about the circumstances that led Ms. Miller to go to jail rather than reveal who told her the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson. She later agreed to testify when one of her sources, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, gave her a personal waiver to do so.

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113029079693179566-WQ_zjcgphX1WK05ICLNuyGb5YmM_20051125.html?mod=blogs

[Nordmadr]

1. Here's your pink slip...consider yourself fucking severanced.

Package...how many of us get a severance package when we fuck up our jobs? Let her eat cake.

Olaf

[zonkra]

45. My guess is that

her "severance package" will include another hot weekend in Aspen with "Scooter" and a George Tenet-style "Medal of Freedom" from President Satan. Not to mention the book deal, movie rights, etc., etc. Meanwhile, terrified Democratic "leadership" will do nothing at all about it, as usual.  Joe McCarthy, now shoveling coal in hell with Dick Nixon, Ron Reagan, and "Dolph" Hitler is laughing like hell, because he thinks (with good reason) he's "winning". What's more pathetic? The rabid dog or the whipped puppy?

[newyawker99]

71. Hi zonkra!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

65. And after what the NYT's spent...

...in legal fees because of her. They should bring a civil action against her to recover some of it. She's such a duplicitous whore.

[goforit]

2. Sulzberger/Keller are a joke!! They knew!!!..They should fire Judy and

then resign with total apology to the American people
and some of the decent reporters left at NYT.

[0007]

17. I vote for that proposal in a New York second.

Keller & Sulzberger could have nipped this in the bud a long time ago, when they noticed that Judith was out of step with the world. Now they come up with those phony excuses, like they don't have a brain of their own.

[gulfcoastliberal]

42. Seconded.

They step down or the NYT's reputation will never recover.

[calimary]

49. Only problem is, I'm not convinced they noticed that Judith was out of

step with the world. They seemed to have been COMPLETELY FINE with everything she was coming up with about the fabled WMDs that we were sure to find in Iraq any minute now. They seemed to be just fine with everything else she was writing, and the way she was writing it, the language she used. I was reading something most intriguing on the Romenesco website from Jay Rosen, talking about how EVERYTHING Judith Miller writes is in "code" of some sort:

http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2005/10/21/jm_clrc.html

I'm not sure they did notice. She was still their fair-haired wonder-woman, the golden girl, she-who-could-do-no-wrong, with her Pulitzer Prize, her scoops, her killer sources, and her marquee value. They weren't in any hurry to look any deeper. Everything was just peachy.

I had an experience with somebody - well - I was gonna say somebody like Judy Miller in a newsroom in which I worked, years ago. But this delightful young nymph was nothing like Miller. No prizes (certainly didn't do much to earn any), no extensive experience. But she did have a few things going for her: unavoidable beauty, a good radio voice, and chutzpah. I never figured out whether she was actually sleeping with the program director or just flirting him up and flattering the bejeezus out of him because she knew it would benefit her. But she rocketed to the top of the pile, even openly threatening my job (as her immediate supervisor) and fomenting discord in my newsroom. She did everything she could to turn what few staffers and interns I had against me, and because she was the favored child of upper management, they were more inclined to ally themselves with her than with me, and certainly NOBODY wanted to rock the boat. When I tried to point out her multiple on-air blunders and the TONS of examples of her playing fast and loose with the facts to that same upper management, they simply wouldn't hear of it. Just would NOT hear of it. Even after she was written up in one of the local paper's media gossip sections for her mispronunciations and other on-air embarrassments - for which they dismissed her as a mere "sidekick-newsreader" (same column described me separately as "award-winning broadcast journalist"), the PD and the general manager were completely enamored of her, and WOULD NOT HEAR anything critical of her AT ALL. They just would not. They did everything but plug their fingers in their ears and dance around singing LA-LA-LA-LA-LA.

I suspect the same thing happened with Judy Miller and her upper (mis)management. They were just very probably enamored of her, and her self-proclaimed luster, and didn't even consider looking a little bit deeper under the surface. Probably didn't think it was even necessary.

Now, as a result of this negligence and complete idiocy, she's fallen flat on her face and yanked them down in the gutter with her.

Fine. If she hangs, they should stick with her the way they always have, and hang with her. Truly, she couldn't have done it without them. Fie on the whole lot of them.

[0007]

69. Thank you kindly for the well written analogy. Which gave a refection

on my experiences in life and how those things work, that I've forgotten about through time.

[Voltaire99]

46. Exactly: Judy's but one cancer. Happily, a 52% drop in profits...

...means the Times will soon be scaling back whether it wishes or not.

Unfortunately it's too much to expect the chief assholes to fall on their swords; the Times always has been and always will be an establishment mouthpiece. Judy merely represents a high point in the relationship between US reporters and their true employers, the plutocracy.

The best we can hope for at present is that, along with other MSM, increasing irrelevance to readers will drag these lying dinosaurs down into the tarpits. Glub glub glub!

[Jack from Charlotte]

48. The family needs to ditch all three of them....

Sulzberger has destroyed the family name. Keller is a joke of a supervisor...."I told her not to do that but she did it anyway....."
Miller is a scum sucking pig who has had her feet on the ceiling for 30 years...... and should be fired yesterday.

[Botany]

3. HMMMMMM!

I wonder what this means?
<New York Times reporter Judith Miller has begun discussing her future employment options with the newspaper...........> :P


See you later Judy & hope St. Fitz indicts your boney ass.

[tabasco]

4. If the Screw York Whore wants to get any credibility back.

Then they better shitcan her dumb ass.

[sendero]

7. Exactly..

.... that would be a good start!

Then they can jettison a couple stupid-assed editors with prejudice!

[depakid]

29. A start is right

The Times has fallen almost as low as the Post. It's going to take a lot more than showing Miller the door to get it back.

[William769]

5. Wasn't it their job to know more?

[Benhurst]

6. Forget the golden parachute, Judy. You're a

war criminal. Just be glad you aren't pacing in you cell at the Hague.

[PurityOfEssence]

8. Here's this sack; put your crap in it and go.

Spend the rest of your days at Hag Harbor.

[Toucano]

9. ROFL! n/t

[Catfight]

10. Remove the wart on the NYT. Bye Judy the martyr. nt

[Norquist Nemesis]

11. Walk her to the door! n/t

[KansDem]

43. If by that you mean have someone with her at all times...

while she cleans out her desk and boxes up her belongings (and only her belongings), then walk her off the premises, then I'm all for it.

"Uh, Judy, I think that box of paper clips belong to the company!"

[endarkenment]

12. They should just go look up what they did for Jason Blair

its under 'termination procedures for deliberate liars'.

Oh wait, she's a white woman, so they have to go to:
'termination procedures for deliberate liars, white women only'.

Oh wait, she's a well connected media whore, so they have to go to:
'termination procedures for deliberate liars, well connected media whore white women only'.

Sheesh it's more complicated than I thought.

[Teaser]

13. SEVERANCE PACKAGE?

Are they fucking kidding me? The only severance package she should get is seeing her job guillotined in front of her.

[YDogg]

25. 2,000+ troops received a "severance package" thanks to Miller & Co.

[PassingFair]

63. Hey, she can come here to Detroit,

I here Delphi's hiring.
$9.00 an HOUR!

[sasquatch]

14. NYT Boss:"This ain't a brothel where we sell ourselves out to politicians-

so in short: YOU'RE FIRED YOU TWO BIT WHORE!!"
:evilgrin:

[deminks]

15. Judy, Judy, Judy. I heard the Pentagon was looking for

embeds again, but if you don't have a place of employment, maybe Rumsferatu can appoint you to one as an independent reporter. 'Course you won't have the readership you had with the Times, so maybe Rummy won't need you after all.

When you sleep with pack dogs, sometimes you pick up their fleas.

[Tight_rope]

16. What is there to talk about...'FIRE THE LYING BITCH"!

With no fucking severance package.:mad: :argh: :spank:

[nvliberal]

18. Jeff Gerth should get his severence package, too, and his

is about 13 years overdue.

[Dunvegan]

19. Severance Package = Deal for Settlement and Silence?

It's obvious that the ownership and senior editor could/should have been more involved in vetting Judy's articles and actions.

How did she earn the sobriquet "Little Miss Run Amok" unless she was allowed to run amok? Management should have put a stop to "Loose Cannon Miller." But they didn't.

So ownership and management at the Times have a lot of 'splaining to do.

Mayhaps they want to settle to get a contract with Judy to not devluge the articles of settlement. Mayhaps one of the contractual considerations will be to not comment regarding the top of the pyramid at the Times after she's tossed her parachute and kicked out the back door of the "Grey Lady" into free-fall.

I wonder....

[maryallen]

30. Really think Sulzberger didn't notice the little "aluminum tubes" article?

Quite an earth-shaking notion:
You can make uranium from aluminum tubes?
So sayeth Judy Miller ...

No, Sulzberger KNEW it was a farce, so did Judy, and so did their "masters," pulling the strings behind the curtain.

Sickening, disgrusting ... the whole "cabal."

[ErisFiveFingers]

20. Fire her. Period. n/t

[calimary]

53. Welcome to DU!

Yes. I'd send her packing, with close supervision by security guards until she leaves the building so she doesn't swipe anything that doesn't belong to her.

Glad you're here...to share what looks to be an absolute GANGBUSTER week!

Help us GET RID OF THESE PEOPLE (meaning - those for whom Little Miss Run Amok REALLY was working)!!!

[ECH1969]

64. Yup, I agree totally

[alcibiades_mystery]

21. Can you hear the faint chant rising throughout the blogosphere

SHIT-CAN
SHIT-CAN
SHIT-CAN
SHIT-CAN
SHIT-CAN
SHIT-CAN
SHIT-CAN
SHIT-CAN
SHIT-CAN
SHIT-CAN
SHIT-CAN
SHIT-CAN
SHIT-CAN
SHIT-CAN
SHIT-CAN
SHIT-CAN

[drb]

22. Donald Trump could handle that with two words!

Me, I'm verbose; I'd go for three. I'd add "shithead" on the end!

[Rainscents]

23. CNN (Larry King) will hire her to work with him.

:sarcasm:

[Ernesto]

24. Severance package?

Hell she can probably go right to work @ the Weekly Standard or Faux.... There's plenty of work out there for "good" reporter/hack-whore like her.

[silvermachine]

26. I was hoping...

...for the perp walk. Oh well. What really nauseates me is the footage of her when she was released from prison, acting for all the world like she was the fucking homecoming queen, holding one guy's hand while on the arm of another, sporting that toothy grin like it was a photo shoot. So happy to be the center of attention no matter the cost to journalism or to this country for that matter.

[jaded_at_best]

27. Dabney Coleman said it best in 9 to 5:

'Get rid of her. Did you hear what I said? FIRE THE BITCH!'

[calimary]

54. Yes, he did, didn't he?

And it hopefully would be said with the same smarm. :evilgrin:

Welcome to DU!

Visualize IMPEACHMENT!!!!
Then go DO something about it.

[Miss Chybil]

28. It must be nice to be so "special" you get to negotiate your own firing.

She's a liar. She needs to go. Period. Hasta la bye-bye, baby...

[Dunvegan]

31. Judy may only be "special" enough to negotiate he own terms of dismissal..

...because the editor and publisher want to make a deal.

[Catrina]

32. I'm sure she's already in talks with tabloid mogul Murdoch

That's where she should have been from the start. At least we know not to believe anything from Fox.

What severance pay? Give it to the families of the dead, the soldiers or the Iraqi people whose lives were endangered by her and all the other propagandists who cheered on the lies so many of us knew they were telling.

Shame on all of them ~ we need an entirely new press, with real journalists and I hope when all the truth is out, there will be a mass exodus of the front people for this cabal in the press. Without a truthful press, there is no democracy, and these last five years have tragically demonstrated that.

Let Fox remain as an example of what could happen if we ever again drop our guard, and let Judy be their 'star reporter'. Assuming she isn't indicted, of course.

[mtnester]

51. Or else she is negotiating for Scotty's job

since she whored so well for them ya know, and Scotty really is about to the burn out, drooling stage where you get when you get hit over the head repeatedly.

[wordpix]

33. NYT will never be able to correct the mistakes with 2000 US dead

in Iraq. Thanks for your reporting, Judy.

"She has since become a subject of controversy for her prewar reporting on Iraq's nuclear capabilities, which bolstered the Bush administration's case for an invasion.

Many of those reports, which relied in part on anonymous administration officials, turned out to be incorrect. The Times has since acknowledged flaws in the reporting and published a series of articles correcting the mistakes."

[daleo]

37. Does the New York Times publish in the afterlife.

Because that's the only way the tens of thousands who died in the Iraq invasion and occupation will ever know that they "corrected their mistake". Too bad they don't get a do-over.

[calimary]

55. Yeah, sure they did. Welcome to DU, BTW!

They tiptoed around laying the blame where it belonged. They never mentioned her by name, even though it was her byline smack-dab at the top of most of the offending articles. They dared not muss her pretty hair, I guess...

[madmark]

34. If she is fired for misconduct why the severance pay?

[E-Z-B]

35. $20 says she ends up working for Fox News

[BlueManDude]

47. Fox, Weekly Standard, WSJ, etc etc - don't cry for Judy.

[calimary]

56. Could easily happen. She'd have some cozy digs over there, too.

They're certainly birds of a feather, since she's done the same kind of cherry-picked "fair and balanced" "reporting" for which they're now famous.

She'd fit right in.

Welcome to DU, btw. Sounds like you fit right in, here!

[brentspeak]

36. When will Sulzberger himself be given the boot?

All he has is the pedigree and the name. The Times is a shell of what it used to be since he took over.

[Lexingtonian]

38. kick her out versus throw her out....

Decisions, decisions....

Maybe she and Mohammed al-Sahaf can work as a reporting team for Fox News.

[Infomaniac]

39. Nominated. I think MoDo Should Be Put In Charge of Planning...

Judith Miller's departure party. Can you see it? The centerpieces would be miniature aspens on turntables, "top secret" would be stamped on all the party favors and Arianna Huffington would give the toast. What I wouldn't give to be invited to that party. I suspect some Times reporters have already had an unofficial send-off party for Miller.

[gasperc]

40. I think she has to stab the editor in broad daylight

and even then maybe they'll fire her

[lovuian]

41. Your FIRED!!!

:bounce:

[Voltaire99]

44. For a nice read on all things Judy...

...see Cockburn's column from a few days ago at Counterpunch.com.

[ClintonTyree]

50. Just when I think the NYT can't sink any lower..........

they succeed in digging themselves an even deeper hole. Talks about her future at the NYT? TALKS? :wtf: This woman should have been fired months ago and now they're having "talks discussing her future employment options".
How about, YOU'RE FIRED! That's the total extent of the talking that should be done.
Sulzberger and Keller should go with her, they've pussy-footed around this issue for too damned long and have allowed Miller to use the Times as a tool for the bush administration's warped agenda. Under Sulzberger and Keller's guidance this newspaper has become the laughing stock of the industry. Don't these clowns feel even the least bit embarrassed by the way Miller has used them and the Times? In all likelihood they themselves are part of the mighty bush propaganda wurlitzer, this is why they've treated Miller with kid gloves.
This........woman, should be fired immediately without compensation. The blood of over 2,000 soldiers is on her hands as well as the bushies. I hope she's happy, the rotten, filthy bitch. :grr:

[upsidedownaussie]

52. sing it with me

na na, na na na na, hey hey hey... goo-ood bye!

don't let the door hit ya on the way out, bitch.

[calimary]

57. LOVE that song! I've been singing it a lot lately. Welcome to DU!

Glad you're here. We'll all be singing it together, I suspect. And soon.

:toast:

[Uncle Joe]

58. I think they should retain her severance to help fund

the inevitable civil lawsuit that will come from the estates of the dead and wounded Americans that were sent off to war in Iraq on a boat load of lies all brought to you from the publication that only "prints the news fit to print".

[ThumperDumper]

59. GOOD! Maybe...

if people start getting fired for parroting Republican lies and talking points, people will start being more responsible. -JJ

http://jaundicejames.blogspot.com/

[Tom Joad]

60. Judith and her bosses should be sentenced to hard labor.

Crimes against humanity.
Let them be tried in Nuremberg.

[Orsino]

61. She wants to be paid MORE for not being a journalist?

Bogus.

[Neil Lisst]

62. Judas Miller betrayed the Times and journalism

My conclusions on Judas Miller and her betrayal of the Times, journalism, and America:





Maureen Dowd said Judy is a tropist, and now, Judy is tropissed.

[TOOLZ]

66. I imagine she needs severance to support her during her book negotiations

I'm glad she's being reamed, all irresponsbile journalists should be held accountable, not just the ones right wing bloggers beat their chests about.

[misscoko34]

67. Bin Laden's Bitch......

needs to be tried along with the chimp pimp bush at Nuremburg and hanged!

[NuttyFluffers]

68. Might I suggest for her seppuku by printing press machine...

first few hundred copies of the next NYT printing a gi-normous mea culpa printed from her own blood. it'd be a collectors' item!

[DrZeeLit]

70. Her job status? Can you say... FIRED? ..... job status my patootie...

Sheesh.
She's a piece of work.
I'm with Mo Dowd on this one.

[NYYFan]

72. This should be the shortest "talks" in history

She should be FIRED.