Tag: jayson blair

Bill Kirstol has a new hit piece in the New York Times, in which he flat out lies about Obama. There was no fact checking done at all. Will the New York Times fire him like they did Jayson Blair?

It appears that it just might be: Conservative media outlets rushed with surprising vehemence to defend Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Thursday against a critical article in The New York Times, embracing a maverick they have often attacked. Rush Limbaugh calls it “the drive-by media … trying to take him out.” Laura Ingraham, another influential […]

Howard Kurtz has an interesting column in the Washington Post today where he has examined the response of the blogosphere to Judith Miller’s story. While questions are being asked around the internet about her security clearance that she received from the Department of Defense (see this article atPoynter Online by former CBS correspondent Bill Lynch), […]

Judy Miller finally released her account today of her ordeal surrounding the Valerie Plame leak (full New York Times articlehere). I have not read the entire article in full, but have read an interesting diagnosis into it done by Editor and Publisher magazine. For the first time this clearly, Miller, in today’s article, admits, “WMD–I […]