AnotherVoice

Waxahachie, Texas, March 29, 2005 -- Believing what I was raised to hold sacred, that every voice counts, I've bombarded my local paper for years with letters and op-eds (and been active in politics). Yet here in the heart of everyone's favorite "red state," where it's especially important that another voice be heard, no one seemed to be listening. This is my megaphone.

Saturday, October 22, 2005

The NY Times Public Editor on "The Miller Mess"

Byron Calame, Public Editor at the New York Times, has issued his critique of the way key figures at the paper have handled the events surrounding the leadup to the invasion of Iraq, the paper's embarrassing publication of untruths before and since, and the current Wilson-Plame investigation — all having in common a runaway train named Judy Miller. He concludes:
It seems to me that whatever the limits put on her, the problems facing her inside and outside the newsroom will make it difficult for her to return to the paper as a reporter.


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