Judith Miller Criticizes Julian Assange For Not Verifying Sources
Judith Miller (now "Judy" for Fox News) makes a crack about Wikileaks' Julian Assange being a "bad journalist" because --wait for it--
JUDITH MILLER:... because he didn't care at all about attempting to verfiy the information that he was putting out or determine whether or not it would hurt anyone.
That's very interesting coming from Miller, an instrumental component in taking us into the Iraq War, and the subsequent deaths of tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and 4430 American troops.
Miller would later say about her role:
"[M]y job isn't to assess the government's information and be an independent intelligence analyst myself. My job is to tell readers of The New York Times what the government thought about Iraq's arsenal." Some have criticized this position, believing that a crucial function of a journalist is independently to assess information, to question sources, and to analyze information before reporting it.
Milller's fall from grace since has taken her to Fox News, and now down to the murky depths of NewsMax, according to Dave Weigel at Slate.
The New York Times reporter who quit the paper in 2005 -- a casualty of the Valerie Plame scandal and a target of attacks on her pre-war reporting about Iraq's weapons programs -- has a job in print journalism again. She's a contributing writer at Newsmax, the conservative web and print venture founded in 1998 by Christopher Ruddy and built into a multi-million dollar company. (Miller is on contract, not a full-time staffer, so she's continuing the Fox gigs etc.)
Please, V.C., spare us from the drivel spewed by inane and inconsequential nobodys! And that goes for Lil Tucky!
This bitch complaining about journalistic cred?
Fucking unbelievable. She has no fucking shame.
She's a piece of work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6lxQiGR2qI
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You're a treasure ;)
JUDITH MILLER:... because he didn't care at all about attempting to verfiy the information that he was putting out or determine whether or not it would hurt anyone.
Actually, i think he did take time to verify his reports. Hard to say for sure at this point with all the media hysteria ATM. We do know now that Miller did no such thing with her reports.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
This woman or should I say journalist has no sense of irony or she is the biggest comedian on the face of the earth and should be on the Daily Show, no wait, The Colbert Report.
Judith Miller didn't check her story and it hurt millions of people including all Americans and the death of thousands of troops. Irony indeed.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Oh goodness...did he start a war?
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Wow its like the pot caling the kettle black. What a retard.
Southern Yankee
she's a crack up
Judith Miller fly airplane upside down have crackup.
I remember when this nasty old hag was locked up and the MSM treated her as if she was taking a Martin Luther King like principled stand. Our Media is dead.
I'd rather watch cartoons than American Sunday Political talk.
Talking meatballs, fries, and shake?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
meet Kettle.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
is probably well aware of "pot", but I'm doubtful about that "kettle" part.:)
Love the disconnect. She was getting word of mouth bullshit, he pretty much has a fucking hard copy of official documents. Of Judy and Julian, one of them committed and epic fail on fact verification, and it wasn't Mr Assange. But no harm eh, Judy. You only made it possible to start the Iraq war, you propagandising war criminal.
me-oww!
:)
From a respected (for some before the war?) New York Times writer to a wannabe NewsMax contributor (who gets paid by the article that NewsMax thinks is printable) and a sometimes interviewee on Fox. Somehow I think her career is going in the wrong direction... for a reason.
War is Peace
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Ignorance is Strength
Has a job "in print", maybe. There's nothing of "journalism" about it though. . .
Judith you are just angry and nervous because you think Assange is trying to copy Fox Non news- Fox non News the undisputed champion of NO SOURCES (actually made up ones).
She is journalistic malfeasance personified.
While she was sitting on Scotter Libby's face, Miller would shout down at him, "Hey, you ain't lying to me, are ya, Scoot?"
I haven't laughed like is in awhile. Horrible image but still funny as hell if a little scary at the same time! :) PEACE
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Because her legs are so fat they covered his ears.
He'd just respond "Mrph. Vrrrmph. Mrgph. Vrmph."
That way, she could tell her boss she 'checked her source' for veracity.
And Scooter, at the same time, pretending deafness, had plausible deniability that he'd spilled the beans to a journalist.
Unbe-fucking-lievable.
I would call this comedy if it wasn't in such poor taste.
I hope the money is worth it, "Judy", you worthless fucking whore.
Mrs Kettle
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-George Carlin
Nothing is new. In 1771, that great lover of liberty, John Wilkes, and a number of printers challenged the law that prohibited the reporting of Parliamentary debates and speeches, kept secret because those in power argued that the information was too sensitive and would disrupt the life of the country if made public. Using the arcane laws of the City of London, Alderman Wilkes arranged for the interception of the Parliamentary messengers sent to arrest the printers who had published debates, and in doing so successfully blocked Parliament. By 1774, a contemporary was able to write: "The debates in both houses have been constantly printed in the London papers." From that moment, the freedom of the press was born.
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Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
My, but that's rich!
Mark P. Kessinger
New York, New York
Another reason why I can't watch tv for actual news, information or politics anymore.
It's become an absurd satire.
It's so ridiculously false and devious, I don't how anyone can take any of it seriously
There is no low that is too low for Fox , Miller criticizing Assange for not verifying sources ? LMAO , that's good . What's really pathetic are their viewers , pea brain morons who have not one clue as to the hypocrisy and the irony here .
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
She is a sophist! They have been hated for a long time.
According to the OED;
3. One who makes use of fallacious arguments; a specious reasoner.
1581 G. Pettie tr. Guazzo's Civ. Conv. i. (1586) 34 You knowe also that we naturallie hate cauillers and Sophists, who at euerie word will ouerthwart us.
http://www.iep.utm.edu/sophists/
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caution: dark souls only past this point.
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Miller's role on fox and her job at Newsmax, both obviously biased and alleged news sources should make all of question just exactly what was her role in the lead up to war and the outing of Valerie Plame. It certainly looks like she was just posing as a journalist and really working for the administration. She has no credibility.
My apologies to pigs
Reality has a liberal bias
This coming from the bitch that helped start the Iraq war with lies.
Fuck you Judith Miller, you low life piece of shit.
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds--Bob Marley
Yeah, guys, but what about all those other "unconfirmable" stories she just didn't feel comfortable filing? To wit:
On May 17, 2006, NavySEALs.com and MediaChannel.org published an exclusive interview with Miller in which she detailed how the attack on the Cole spurred her reporting on Al Qaeda and led her, in July 2001, to a still-anonymous top-level White House source, who shared top-secret NSA signals intelligence (SIGINT) concerning an even bigger impending Al Qaeda attack, perhaps to be visited on the continental United States. Ultimately, however, Miller never wrote that story. Two months later, on September 11, Miller and her editor at the Times, Stephen Engelberg, another Pulitzer Prize winner, both remembered and regretted the story they "didn't do".
I'm sure she felt just...awful.
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