NYDailyNews: NYT Editor "got snowed by Wolfowitz" in private meetings

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Executive Editor Bill Keller has iced out Miller for her "entanglements" with indicted White House leaker Scooter Libby and for championing Bush's search for the illusory weapons of mass destruction.

But we hear that Keller himself fell prey to the spin of former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. Word is that, well after many laughed off Miller's WMD tales, Keller had a series of private meetings with Wolfowitz, who assured him that Saddam was hiding something.

"Keller got snowed by Wolfowitz," says a source. "That's who gave Miller the green light" to keep writing her piece.

It's no wonder Wolfowitz would have Keller's ear. In 2002, when he was still a reporter, Keller wrote a profile that applauded the neo-con's "patient logic" and "humanitarian impulse."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/363873p-309868c.html

is to slaughter tens of thousands of innocents, torture bystanders, and pour body-dissolving chemicals onto civilians. Culture of life, dontcha know.

to protect BushInc. over the last 30 years.

is now at the head of the World Bank.
We'll see how much damage he can manage to do there.
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But not nearly as sad as the NYT's coverage of the run-up to the war and the search for WMD. Not nearly as sad.

for the NYT.. Is it enough for it to be in a position to regain it's reputation?

:rofl:

http://tbogg.blogspot.com/2005/11/you-had-me-at-can-i-borrow-your-comb.html

LOL

At least someone is awake....

If the NYT and Daily News were both owned by Pig Vomit Weapons, Inc we wouldn't have the Daily News performing the public duty that is journalism.

maybe I would have been duped as well. But he didn't, and I wasn't.

used car salesman trying to unload some patched together heap as a premier touring car.

Now everyone's claiming they were "fooled." The great NYT had no means to get the other side of the story if that's what it wanted to do? Knight-Ridder did.

NYT went along to get along. Access, "scoops," favorable regulatory climate for their bidness. Didn't matter if the scoops were all fiction. Far more payoff to support the Administration than buck it. Ditto WaPo.

For cryin' out loud, he's not the head of the office betting pool, it's a f*cking MAJOR NEWSPAPER!!!! This is not FEMA!

URGENT! Timing is critical to save earthquake victims before winter!

The Times seemed remarkably incurious to check too diligently what it was being fed by its Bush administration sources. But with millions of people marching in the streets, as well as thousands of people online and in their editorial pages screaming, well, bloody murder at them, they continued to believe whatever pleasant tale was being spun out by the Bushistas, even when that tale was internally inconsistent, as well as at serious odds with reality.

I mean, we're just a bunch of schmucks with modems, and we've been miles ahead of the Times and so many other "respectable" news outlets for years on this story. And we've been telling them so, in no uncertain terms.

Verdict: The Times willingly believed whatever they were being told by an administration they knew to be corrupted and compromised nine ways from Sunday. Why they believed the administration is a subject for another day.

We told them so loud and clear. They knew.

The only column of his I ever read was where he was SO blase, SO world-weary about the campaign, the same way BROKAW and most of the elite were, being very convinced there was NO DIFFERENCE between the two candidates.

In the column he said he was trying to put his finger on what was missing in this campaign, when his 3 yr old daughter gave him the answer. GORE's face flashed on the t.v. screen in a close-up and the daughter SPONTANEOUSLY broke into sing-song, saying, "GORE is a BORE! GORE is a BORE!"

Now, I say there is NO way that a 3 yr old will independently come up with that. 3 yr olds are the biggest sychophants in the world, who are ferociously attached to the significant people in their lives and who PARROT what they've heard them say, what they KNOW will gain their attention and approval.

I say the KELLER household had been singing that tune quite a while.
I have not trusted him ever since, and certainly not when he took over as editor. I think he can't cut MILLER loose because he's in too deep himself.

editor. How unprofessional can you get? He has been a disaster from the word go.