Does the Miller Journalism Mess Matter?

Updating this entry to mention that the Washington Post
is reporting the Times story on itself can run as early as tomorrow, Sunday.

Ok,let's start a betting pool:
Who wants to bet that Miller will say anything new and illuminating for the story?
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To: Media Critic Jay Rosen
From: A Former Reporter/Current News Junkie
Re: Too Much Miller Time?

Jay, as I wrote in your topic threads I was going to take a week off from writing this column.

Instead I posted links and various thoughts related to Judith Miller of The New York Times over at my blog, as well as some insider media items relating to Jeff Jarvis.
I mentioned - as did you - on the idiocy of a planned First amendment award by the Society of Professional Journalists to Judith Miller.

But then as I started to respond to your question I decided my answer would itself be a good topic this week.

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Jay asked:
Some say PressThink has overdone it: five posts! Discuss if you care to.
I say, no: this deserves it, there's silence coming from the Times, it's a huge cultural moment for "the press," since it involves the High Church and everyone in mainstream journalism is talking about it for chrisssakes.

I don't see SPJ getting away with both the event and its rep entact.

Jay:

This topic definitely warrants all of this attention in that I think this is leading in one of these three directions:

1) Some serious legal problems at the White House.
Some bloggers and columnists are saying this is leading to a split either between Rove and Card or Cheney's faction and Bush's faction. Either one is definitely worthy of this discussion

2) A pivotal moment for The Times as it disappoints its readers and colleagues and shows what NOT to do in such a scandal. For example, stop getting scooped on your own story.

or 3) The public really truly does not care about this stuff and if they can't get upset about this than that is saying something.

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