Are journalists “conspiring” in the Valerie Plame coverup?
Is it time for Novak and Miller to tell all? T.G. Aug. 10, 2005 | Judith Miller is finally getting some love today as a delegation from the Inter-American Press Association makes a pilgrimage to Washington — and then to the Alexandria Detention Center — to highlight her jailing in the Valerie Plame case. As the Associated Press reports this morning, other international rights groups are also weighing in on Miller’s behalf. But a much different dynamic is playing out back home: Miller and the New York Times are coming under renewed attacks from the north and the south as Vanity Fair and Molly Ivins both suggest that journalists who protect sources at the expense of the truth do a disservice to the readers they’re supposed to be serving. In a Vanity Fair piece that’s not available online but is excerpted at CJR Daily, Michael Wolff says that by failing to reveal that Karl Rove had a hand in the Plame leak, the Times and, until recently, Time were complicit in covering up for the Bush a
