NEW YORK -- With a ferociousness usually reserved for presidents caught lying to the public, the journalism world has turned on The New York Times and its reporter Judith Miller, who only weeks ago was being lauded for her willingness to go to jail to protect a source...
...Greg Mitchell, the editor of the journalism trade publication Editor & Publisher, said Miller should be fired for failing to provide her own paper with a full accounting of her conduct.
"It's not enough that Judith Miller, we learned Saturday, is taking some time off and `hopes' to return to the New York Times newsroom. As the newspaper's devastating account of her Plame games _ and her own first-person sidebar _ make clear, she should be promptly dismissed for crimes against journalism, and her own newspaper," Mitchell said in an online column.
Alex Jones, a former New York Times reporter who now directs the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, said the newspaper owes readers a deeper investigation into Miller's conduct.
"The credibility of The New York Times is at stake," he said. "She either needs to be given a clean bill of health, or she needs to be told that she can't represent the Times anymore."
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