Judy Miller: PlameGate’s First Casualty?
Judy Miller had better hope that book contract she will soon sign is lucrative (well, okay, probably not; I’m sure she’s richer than I’ll ever be and that the New York Times has a generous severance package). Reports the WSJ:
New York Times reporter Judith Miller has begun discussing her future employment options with the newspaper, including the possibility of a severance package, a lawyer familiar with the matter, said yesterday.
The discussion about her future comes several days after the public rupture of the relationship between the Times and Ms. Miller, a 28-year veteran of the paper. Both the editor and the publisher of the Times have expressed regret for their unequivocal support for Ms. Miller when she spent 85 days in jail for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury investigating the unmasking of a Central Intelligence Agency operative.
Of course, if the paper is really interested in salvaging its quickly diminishing reputation, Gail Collins should get pink slip number two…
I’d buy twenty copies of Miller’s book, if it was an in-depth character asassination of the entire editorial staff. Please god, let MoDo keep this cat fight going, I’d love to know how much xanax she is abusing, and tales of Krugman’s halitosis and flatulence would be a merry x-mas read. or maybe anecdotes of Friedman in a room by himself, with the sounds of loud face slapping. Of course, we can all get the dish on how bad the falling out MoDo took over Douglas.
She could sink the times. They better give a lotta cash for that severance. Might even option her book away from her…
oh, the injustice.
mtl, that’s good stuff…maybe you should just ghost-write the thing for her…