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As promised, friends BlackBerried me from the Media Law Resource Center dinner in New York Wednesday night, where Judy Miller was on a panel discussing reporters' privilege. Just hours after her retirement from the Times was announced, Miller was already complaining about the lack of support she had received:
"There were editorials," she said, in reference to the 15 Times editorials on her imprisonment, "But where were the stories?...There would have been more pressure had there been more news...The newspaper could have acknowledged that it did have a dog in the fight."
And when asked by the panel's moderator, ABC's Terry Moran, about the fact that her case was not a classic whistleblower situation, Miller protested, "One person's whistleblower is another person's snitch."
In a bow to the blogosphere, Miller applied the "duck rule" in answer to a question about whether bloggers should be covered by the proposed federal shield law.
"I go by the duck rule: if it looks like a duck, if it quacks like a duck..."
