Plame\Rove: Panel Discussion Provokes Heated Exchange (Video) [View All]

[WillyT]

Did you guys catch this? Just heard about this today on Morning Sedition. Videos at link below.

Panel:

NORMAN PEARLSTINE, Time Inc.
FLOYD ABRAMS, First Amendment Attorney
NICHOLAS LEMANN, Dean of Gradate School of Journalism at Columbia University
MICHAEL GOODWIN, NY Daily News
RICHARD COHEN, Washington Post
MICHAEL WOLFF, Vanity Fair
PAUL HOLMES, Reuters

ALSO PRESENT:

CATHERINE CRIER, Court TV Anchor


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NEW YORK (Court TV) — With New York Times reporter Judith Miller spending her 42nd day in jail for refusing to reveal a source, Court TV convened seven of the biggest names in the media industry to discuss journalists and their confidential sources Tuesday.

What followed was a lively, often belligerent debate that focused on Miller and the rest of the Valerie Plame investigation and was marked by recriminations, regrets and at least one profanity.

Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Norman Pearlstine told the moderator, Court TV anchor Catherine Crier, that while he stood by his decision to turn over his reporter's notes about a confidential source to the special prosecutor in the Plame case, he questioned whether the reporter, Matt Cooper, should have given the source, White House advisor Karl Rove, anonymity in the first place.

"A 90-second conversation with the president's spin doctor who is trying to undermine the workings of a whistle blower didn't deserve confidential source status," Pearlstine said.

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Link: http://www.courttv.com/news/2005/0816/panel_ctv.html

Gets a bit testy apparently.

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