Says Judith Miller:
"A promise of confidentiality once made must be respected, or the journalist will lose all credibility and the public will, in the end, suffer."Excuse me?? Credibility? I think you lost that, Judy, when you allowed yourself to be used as a government shill to hype non-existent WMD. Now the public is suffering on account of the con job you facilitated. So excuse my total lack of empathy.
It's not that I think the principle of confidentiality isn't important or that it should only apply to journalists whose work I respect. And I can't claim to understand the fine points of all the speculation about what Miller knows and who she told, or what someone might have told her. But as someone pointed out earlier today, it's one thing to protect a source who comes forward to reveal a crime. It's another when coming forward is the crime.
And Judith Miller's martyr act doesn't change the fact that she's a hack. She and Robert Novak are two of a kind: except that she has pretensions to journalistic integrity, and he doesn't even have that.
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