New Republic editor in chief Martin Peretz proclaims Judith Miller to be "a damn good reporter." I wonder if Peretz thinks the other writers working at his magazine are up to the Miller Standard.
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11 Jun 2007 02:25 pm
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I don't believe that Martin Peretz is a real person. He can only be a fictitious caricature of a new democrat created by liberal bloggers. He was conjured to espouse the most absurd arguments one might expect to hear from liberal hawks so that these bloggers could refute the arguments of "Martin Peretz" rather than creating strawmen or searching far and wide for myriad different liberal hawks to attack. No one person could be that ridiculous.
Try to see it from Martin Peretz's view.
Judith Miller acted as a conveyor belt to Libby's lies that got us into a war Peretz supported and still supports.
That makes her a "a damn good reporter".
Heckuva job Judy!
I don't care what he thinks.
Will Peretz write a column about me if I call him an insane jackass?
I wonder if Peretz thinks the other writers working at his magazine are up to the Miller Standard.
How many Miller Standards are in a Weekly Standard? I would guess seven, but then, a six-pack of Miller has six cans, unless I already drank one. Please advise.
Yiglesias is of course preaching to the converted.
Judith Miller happens to be a damn good reporter as well as a terrific writer.
Yiglesias should study her style, it'll be a great improvement over his own flat scrawlings.
Stephen Glass did flourish under Peretz.
Marty Peretz is one of the funniest bloggers to come down the pike in a long, long time.
"Stephen Glass did flourish under Peretz. Gary Farber
As opposed to all the great reporters that flourished at The New York Times and elswhere, reporters like Jayson Blair, et al.
Apter:
(1) I really think it's fantastic that you have contempt for reporters that have fluorished at the New York Times. Though it does leave me wondering why you air this position as part of your defense of Times reporter Judith Miller.
(2) I don't know how you define a "damn good reporter" but the record makes it clear that Judith Miller was very close to some highly dubious sources and printed their unchecked assertions as facts, to our country's enduring detriment. I have a bit of a tin ear, at least for writers who aren't obviously terrible, but if I accept your assertion of her terrific writing talent, this makes her a damn good stenographer. Or, perhaps more accurately, a damn good propagandist.
P.S. Your name begs the question: apter than whom?
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Heads in the Sand
I wonder if Marty P is thinking of the time Miller suggested questions to Israelis 'interrogating' Muhammed Salah?
http://www.slate.com/id/2132421/
Maybe Miller will become editor of TNR when it becomes a bimonthly journal of opinion?
Posted by otto | June 11, 2007 2:37 PM