Fox Glibly Excuses Judy Miller's Past Indiscretions

In today's Howard Kurtz column, which teases Fox News' acquisition of Miss Run Amok (aka Judith Miller), Fox's Senior VP John Moody explains away all of that...stuff...from the past. My favorite part is this little bit of gloss on the ol' cost of doin' business:

"She has a very impressive resume...We've all had stories that didn't come out exactly as we had hoped."

Yyyyeah. In other words, no one at Fox can claim that their furtive manipulations of the medium have always generated the partisan outcomes they'd hope to engineer.  In this one case, however, Judy Miller did succeed. And Fox is big enough not to blame her for the thousands of potential viewers who are dead because of it.

Comments

[LetMeUnderstandThis]

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[MajorKong]

Judith Miller should be changing bedpans at Walter Reed instead of hosting her own television show.

[Passenger57]

"Incredibl­e,Judy...w­ho's your source for this shocking story?"
"The Guy In The Baseball Cap Pulled Low Over His Face..."
"It doesn't get any better than that...you heard it here first,folk­s..."

[Bitsko]

She'll fit right in with the other suck-up armchair warriors over at Fox News.

[RVGrandpa]

Is this the same Judith Miller who did some jail time recently? Wow, what a hero. Now she can commiserate with good ole Bill and the guys.

[Soulsurfer]

Right along with Ollie North, another indicted, convicted, and pardoned "great American".

[texanna]

The addition of Judy Miller to Fox Noise brings the low bar of journalism set at that outlet to a new, lower setting. Just one more reason never to land on that channel.

[ChunkyMunky]

They should remove Fox News from under the "media" tab at the top of the page.

[Puzzles]

This headline reminded me of "The Harlot's Progress" etchings by William Hogarth. I think Millers arrival at Fox shows the downward progression. A few years from now she'll be on talk radio and from there to ranting books like Corsi.

[Soulsurfer]

Headed for a Dennis Miller crash and burn.

[nocturnalkid]

Just more proof that Fox lies and hires liars.

[realpolitic]

Fox was never really a news channel, but now it is more of a cult than anything.

[realpolitic]

We should bombard Fox with emails asking that Judith Miller apologize for all the deaths of American soldiers she caused by printing the administration's lies.

[Ourrias]

Judy Miller - from New York Times she has sunk to the dregs of Fox News.

No need for her professional obituary - a demotion from the Newspaper of Record to Focks Snooze screams volumes.

You're a "has been" washed out nobody, Judy.

A nobody!

[11907281]

I wonder if this is their way of admitting defeat in this election and preparing for a "hostile" (even handed) administration. I bet they think they can sell Beck and Miller as liberals from the liberal media, and then when they don't get access they will call O's admin the most hostile admin towards the press in history ... their tactics are like a color by numbers painting.

[brendanm]

The sad thing is that Judy Miller is now one of their most respectable reporters. Think about that...

[oldmilitant]

wow, what a suprise.

[Bitsko]

Ironically, because she worked at the supposedly liberal NY Times.

[fran-pan]

who could be suprized by this . ms miller always was a paid republican operative.­. she'll fit invery well
at fox..maybe she and scooter will work together again.. all the water carriers end up at fox..