The Spirit of Judy Miller is Alive and Well at the NYT, and It Does Great Damage

One of the very few Iraq War advocatesto pay any price at all was former New York Times reporter Judy Miller, the classicscapegoat. But what was her defining sin? She granted anonymity to government officials and then uncritically laundered their dubious claims in theNew York Times. As the paper’s own editors put it in their 2004 mea culpaabout the role they played in selling the war: “We have found a number of instances of coverage that was not as rigorous as it should have been. In some cas...