"Nothing But The Truth": Fictionalizing Judith Miller

New York Times:

ROD LURIE knew from the start that his new film, about a newspaper reporter who goes to jail to protect a source, might be a tough sell in an age in which the press is held in widespread and casual disdain. But it took a throttling from a fellow director, Oliver Stone, to really drive the point home.

Mr. Stone was working with Josh Brolin on a California soundstage this spring, testing the makeup Mr. Brolin would use to portray President Bush in "W." Mr. Lurie was nearby, reshooting a scene in "Nothing but the Truth," which stars Kate Beckinsale and will remind some viewers of the real-life travails of Judith Miller, the former reporter for The New York Times who spent 85 days in jail in 2005.

Mr. Stone spotted Mr. Lurie and stormed over. "He puts his beefy fingers around my neck," Mr. Lurie recalled, "and said, 'Don't turn Judy Miller into a hero.' "

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Comments

[GeorgeP922]

I think the whole Plame story will die out.

With Democrats breaking way with Plames (found out to be raging neocons) the only story left is Bush/Cheney breaking the law and Judith Miller helping them do it.

So, if America wants to see a movie about politicians taking out their own enemies (which ironicaly the Plames would come to the neocon republican side just 1 year later) and breaking a few laws they will never get prosecuted for, I Say go for it,

but in reality we all know this film will never get published.

And one final screw you to Plame and her husband, im not sure what dark force forced you to support McCain in this election, especially when he supported the campaign to destroy Joe, and endanger Valerie.

[jcwtts1]

They didn't support McCain. They supported Hillary. Wildly. But if memory serves they backed Obama in the general. The question facing the dems is whether or not they want to be about the past or the future. Sure, we could spend the next four years investigating the tons of illegal activity that the Bush admnistration participated in, we could even get Cheney on the Plame stuff to say Bush told him to do it. But the reality is that it doesn't matter. We have to move on, attack the ecconomic issues, the wars, the fact that we might lose our heavy manufacturing in the US... we don't have the time, or frankly the energy to give the Bush criminals what they deserve. We aren't trying to win a couple of elections we are trying to change the world. This isn't a 4 or 8 year revolution, I want what Regan had, a lasting 28 year run of ideology. Going after the hearings doesn't get me that, it turns off independents and gives us 8 years maybe 12. I want four more presidential elections after that.

J

ps - the president is the person who classifies and declassifies. If Bush told people to leak her name not only wasn't a crime committed, but her status, at that moment, was declassified.

[Bettysdad]

Miller has said that it's her job to report what people say, not whether it's true or not.

In that case, attach a recorder to my dog's collar, and have someone transcribe it.

[filo]

Is it me or is the headline an oxymoron ???

[RuckHumper]

It is not you.

[SEQUOIABISON]

Perhaps Ms Miller will be lionized in Israel for her misguided attempt to help Israel by getting the USA involved in the Middle East??

I guess she thought it would help Israel if the US had an outpost nearby to suppress any opposition to the Israeli expansionist policy of building settlements on Palestinian land, which created enormous hostility in the region but was ignored by everyone, except Bin Laden, which from my perspective precipitated 911.

[Bettysdad]

Since 911 was an inside job, your theory doesn't hold up.

[mec57]

God, I wish Judy was fiction, for if she were, we may not have ended up in Iraq...it was shameless shills like her that helped lead us to war.

[ayseari]

Ms. Miller isn't one to let "facts" or "proof" stand in the way of an ultra-reactionary story. The woman doesn't even speak Arabic, and yet the New York effing Times couldn't find anyone more qualified to cover that region. I can't believe they're making a movie about her. Unless it's a satire.

[mec57]

Miller is a major piece of work, and her ending up on Fox is par for the course...I am ashamed to admit I bought her book on Germ Warfare...in hindsight, it was obviously designed to soften people up to the idea of heading off to Iraq...disgusting propaganda...the woman needs to be persona non grata for years to come.

[honeydiva]

well no one has to watch it. duh.

[ladyrefined2000]

she should have gone to jail.........for a long timeeeeeee­eee.......­.....SHE SUCKS.

[antiprop1]

A free speech hero, after she drove the NY Times reputation into the dirt while selling an unjust war.

[mec57]

Right...she was one of the reasons why The Times has become all the news that is unfit to print.

[bascombe]

apparently, this s**tbucket won't let the facts get in the way of romanticising jMiller because that;s his objective all along.

she's not silkwood. she was journalistically fellating warmongers.

[mec57]

She was one of many...and Chris Wallace still is...did anyone see his disgustingly syrupy interview with Condi on Fox News Sunday? YUCK!

[klandish]

Yes but thats Fox - Miller was representing the NYT.

[satyriasis]

Judith Miller needs to be hanged if there is any justice left in America.

[leftLibertarian]

Judith Miller wrote fiction for the NY Times.

[mec57]

LOL. Best comment yet...she certainly did...