Miller Admits Fabricating Hill Staffer Source to Protect Libby

[tuvor]

(This is a day old, but I haven't seen it discussed on DU.)

Judy Miller just admitted her deliberately deceptive role in the White House smear campaign against Joe Wilson.

Her New York Times “personal account” explains that her articles usually referred to Libby as a “senior administration official,” since it’s the truth. But when Libby gave her information about Wilson, the truth wouldn’t cut it.

So at Libby’s request, she agreed to deliberately deceive her readers by describing him as a “former Hill staffer.” The scheme was absurdly misleading, as Arianna explained. It helped Libby trash Wilson without implicating the White House. In Miller’s words, “Mr. Libby did not want the White House to be seen as attacking Mr. Wilson.”

This misleading sourcing violates the New York Times official guidelines, a key fact the Times article ignored. The newspaper requires reporters explain anonymous sourcing arrangements without being “coy,” and “especially when we can shed light on the source’s reasons” (emphasis added). Can you imagine how that might read?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ari-melber/miller-admits-fabricating_b_9005.html

[Lex]

1. Miller was clearly the Propaganda Mistress for the White House.

Printing what they directed, and then shielding them from any responsibility.

[Richard Steele]

5. As a glorified whore, shouldn't her title be "Propaganda MADAM" ?

Sorry to nit-pick, but Condi might get
pissed at your use of "mistress"!

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. She was complicit from the beginning. This was no ordinary

objective journalist.

[oregonindy]

2. the more I hear the worse miller sounds......

[Disturbed]

7. Her Attorneys snookered Fitz.

She isn't all that bright but her Attorneys are. She is smack in the middle of the cabal of the Neo Fascists and was and is a willing tool for their agenda. Her past is catching up to her and her heroin status is crumbeling. Her pixie smile while going off to jail showed what she is about more than anything that she has said. She has been playing her game as a Media Star but as with most that catapult themselves in the the Bright Limelight there are those that work persistently to knock off anyone that stands on a pedestal of self agrandizement.

[Angry Girl]

3. The Bush administration's Tokyo Rose... n/t

[knowbody0]

4. considering her career,

she MUST have been paid to do these dirty deeds. and by now realize she is responsible for thousands of deaths.

[indepat]

6. Frau(lin) Goebbels?

[1932]

8. And this woman has a Pulitzer.

And the New York Times is considered the finest paper in the world.

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[AlCzervik]

9. i'm going to look through her old articles in the run up to the war

and see how many times "A former hill staffer" comes up in regards to Iraq.