Hav-A-Laff, Courtesy of Judy Miller

Of course, she's writing for the Wall Street Journal editorial page, a far more appropriate venue than the front page of the Times (at least, of course, if one were to use old time standards as oppose to Pinch-Raines-Keller standards).

Judy would take an unsubstantiated crock of shit and pass it off as fact. My favorite is a front page piece confirming WMDs in Iraq based on a soldier coming up to her and telling her that that guy yonder said whatever; double hearsay, unsubstantiated. I man, something like is at best a three 'graph story to be buried as deeply within the paper as possible -- if it must run at all.

[Miller] told an audience at Kansas State Univrsity that she's "worried about bloggers" because "[a post] starts as a rumor and within 24 hours it's repeated as fact."

Gosh, unsubstantiated rumors repeated as fact? Well, we guess Miller would know something about that, having given us stories like "U.S. Says Hussein Intensifies Quest for A-Bomb Parts," "U.S. Analysts Link Iraq Labs to Germ Arms," "U.S-Led Forces Occupy Baghdad Complex Filled With Chemical Agents" and "Aftereffects: Prohibited Weapons; Illicit Arms Kept Till Eve of War, An Iraqi Scientist Is Said to Assert."

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