The Public Editor Leaves Something Out

Last Sunday the Times’ public editor, Byron Calame, described how a canard had made it on to the front page: a report in April that the new Airbus jumbos would carry more than 800 passengers by having them stand up, harnessed to stalls. The story was wrong, but it went round the world Read More

Rethinking Miller: Was She So Bad?

Sometimes the smoke of battle has to clear before vital issues can be seen. So it is with the Judith Miller affair.

Despite all the official niceties that accompanied Ms. Miller’s recent departure from The New York Times, few people doubt that she was pushed into retirement.

Perhaps there are good reasons for her ouster Read More

Miller’s Times Return Delayed

It looks like Judith Miller won’t be returning to the New York Times newsroom Monday morning. Last week, the Times asked Miller to cut short her leave of absence and return to the paper Monday or Tuesday in an “unspecified editing” role, a source with knowledge of the situation said.

Previously, the Times had been Read More

Reporter Miller Is Spinning Fast From Times Orbit

By Tuesday, Oct. 25, the legal team that had backed New York Times reporter Judith Miller in her battle with Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald began splintering, as the interests of the reporter and The Times diverged.

Floyd Abrams, the First Amendment lawyer hired by The Times to help handle Ms. Miller’s showdown with Read More