Miller At Gates, Negotiating Exit With Sulzberger

Miller At Gates,
Negotiating Exit
With Sulzberger



By Gabriel Sherman

The end of The New York Times’ five-week standoff with reporter Judith Miller appears to be near. As of Nov. 8, the two sides were closing in on a severance agreement, according to sources familiar with the negotiation.

Last week, with Ms. Miller and The Times stalemated over the terms of her separation from the paper, publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. floated a suggestion: What if Ms. Miller cut short her leave of absence and just came back to West 43rd Street sometime after the weekend?

It was as if the wistful child of a collapsing marriage were suggesting a family picnic—a chance for Dad and Mom to remember how their differences weren’t always so irreconcilable. Maybe she could be some kind of editor?

But Ms. Miller would not be peaceably absorbed into the byline-less grayness of an editing post. Her side countered with a threat that she’d show up at her old reporter’s desk, a source familiar with the negotiations said. The publisher’s trial balloon was swiftly shredded.

It was doubtful that Ms. Miller would accept any position other than a reporting post. And having been serially rebuked in the pages of The Times, Ms. Miller didn’t budge from her demand that she be given space to rebut her critics—whether she returned or she left. Meanwhile, executive editor Bill Keller told Mr. Sulzberger that he was not prepared to accept Ms. Miller’s return to the newsroom in any form, according to a source with knowledge of the negotiations.

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Perhaps if she had done that before, instead of parrotting the lies of the Regime, she would have a performance record to justify a reporting job. Too late to start a new career as a reporter now. She may need to ask the regime for a more formal job position as a propagandist, something for which she has demonstrated talent.

Good Night and Good Luck.

Don't let the door hit your neo-con shilling ass on the way out.

:hi:

And assign her to "cat stuck in tree" stories for the rest of her life. She wants to report, well give her something she can handle because apparently, she can't handle the truth.

She's after a juicy severance package...one that praises her to the hilt, and hands her undue dignity...on a platter.

She's a White House Stenographer....a Steno Sue..on steroids..

Fox will be her next stop..after the tell-all book where she explains how mean everyone has been to her..