The Word
From Andrew Sullivan comes this:
Judith Miller (now “Judy” for Fox News) makes a crack about Wikileaks’ Julian Assange being a “bad journalist” because –wait for it–
“he didn’t care at all about attempting to verfiy the information that he was putting out or determine whether or not it would hurt anyone.”
That’s very interesting coming from Miller, an instrumental component in taking us into the Iraq War, and the subsequent deaths of tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and 4430 American troops. Miller would later say about her role:
[M]y job isn’t to assess the government’s information and be an independent intelligence analyst myself. My job is to tell readers of The New York Times what the government thought about Iraq’s arsenal.