http://www.aim.org/special_report/4096_0_8_0_C/

Gee, Websters agrees with me. Note that the Left has to drop down to 7B on the list to enable their alternate reality:

Main Entry: 1fix
Pronunciation: ‘fiks
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin fixus, past participle of figere to fasten; akin to Lithuanian dygti to sprout, break through
transitive senses
1 a : to make firm, stable, or stationary b : to give a permanent or final form to: as (1) : to change into a stable compound or available form (2) : to kill, harden, and preserve for microscopic study (3) : to make the image of (a photographic film) permanent by removing unused salts c : AFFIX, ATTACH
2 a : to hold or direct steadily b : to capture the attention of
3 a : to set or place definitely : ESTABLISH b : to make an accurate determination of : DISCOVER c : ASSIGN
4 : to set in order : ADJUST
5 : to get ready : PREPARE
6 a : REPAIR, MEND b : RESTORE, CURE c : SPAY, CASTRATE
7 a : to get even with b : to influence the actions, outcome, or effect of by improper or illegal methods
intransitive senses
1 : to become firm, stable, or fixed
2 : to get set : be on the verge
3 : to direct one’s attention or efforts : FOCUS; also : DECIDE, SETTLE — usually used with on
synonym see FASTEN

(yeah - you brought back preview!)

As opposed to the blatant disinformation Joe “confirmed liar” Wilson was trying to peddle to prevent the war from happening?

This is absolutely amazing. What we have here is a member of a faction in CIA (along with State) that was actively trying to scuttle the initiatives of the POTUS. By all rights we should be talking about Joe Wilson’s treason trial, not this inanity.

This man is a liar. The Senate report exposed him as a liar. Why is he being allowed to skate?

The public’s right to know obviously didn’t (and still doesn’t) extend to the full version of Judy Miller’s story. The Times’ own reporting today makes clear that Sulzberger, Keller, et.al. were perfectly willing to omit facts, engage in blatant spin, or simply strive for ignorance on what should have been an important story about the journalistic culture in D.C.

People’s problems with miller aren’t a matter of her sources politics so much as her being a stooge for people regardless of their politics.

Slate pointed out the problems with her reporting here:

http://www.slate.com/id/2086110/
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Afterthought: Let’s pretend she does have another source whose name gave her Valerie Flame and that source is not Libby or Rove.
Where does that leave things?
Does that mean Libby was right to think she was in jail protecting people other than him?

Is Fitzgerald really going to accept an “I don’t know” on something this big?

That’s what I’d like to see happen.
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/10/15/194217.php

After re-reaing today’s articles my opinion of her dropped still further and now she is sounding more incompetent and more of a liar:

IF she doesn’t recall the name of her other secret source than how was she going to talk to that person again if she needed to? What if her editors asked the identity of her source other than Libby, which I thought was supposed to be the new practice post-Newsweek Koran scandal?

Or is she just the journalism version of the guy in Sixth Sense who sees things. “I see sources… I just can’t remember who they are.”

This is what I wrote up:
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/10/16/084511.php

Two words for you….Entertainment Weekly.

1) As for the yellowcake documents, it doesn’t matter. Despite what Joe Wilson said (that he went to Niger and found that the documents were fake) the fact is that the documents came to light 8 months after Wilson went to Niger…one of Wilson’s many lies. The first intelligence service to vouch for the documents were the French…if you are looking for a source of the documents you can look there, but again, it doesn’t matter. The yellowcake documents have nothing to do with Wilson (except that he lied about them).

2) YOu say, “Ask yourselves if it is even plausible that Cheney wasn’t in up to his neck in this.” Okay, I did. Yes it is possible that he wasn’t “up to his neck”.

Rosen says, “It never seems to have registered with Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. … that he was fighting for the right to keep things secret, not for the right to publish what had improperly been kept from us.”

But isn’t that the case EVERY time a reporter goes to jail to protect a source? If so, when do journalists protect sources? Never?

Many left of center commentators appear to be saying the following, “Protect your source - unless your co-workers disagree with your source’s politics… then it is okay to burn him.”

Ask yourselves if it is even plausible that Cheney wasn’t in up to his neck in this. Or, in the case of the yellowcake and bad intel, maybe the Israeli intel guys spotted wheeling in and out of the OSP. It must be something very explosive indeed. Eyes are very wide open these days in DC.

One assume the New Yorker will do a backgrounder on all this. And then Keller will be gone.

His point is that the story is about Bush and Chaney not Rove and Libby. The real story is the PR effort called (WHIG) that peddled misinformation before the war.

It seems to me that the fact that Miller fell for this misinformation is unfortunate, but so, apparently, did 99 senators. So why take it all out on her? I thought the captain was responsible for the direction of the ship of state, not a reporter.

Bashing the Times plays into the WHIG agenda. Newspapers don’t get every story right, especially on deadline, but deliberate misinformation by a secret whitehouse group is something of international import.

How about spending a corresponding amount of time on this topic?

Thanks for all the links though, Jeff, much appreciated.

(And yeah, I know how to go to the wash post to find the link, I am just mentioning it that’s all.)

Please bring back preview!!!!

Credibility, transparency, reliability and performance are all critical to maintaining brand trust and all appear to be in jeapordy at The New York Times over the Judy Miller episode. We now have the long-delayed Times story on the entire affair…

The “media outrage” would have you believe otherwise.