Judith Miller Gets Fox News Slot

by mtippett | October 20, 2008 at 09:26 am

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Famed NYTimes journo Judith Miller is signing up with Fox News, an organization devoted to the destruction of her former employer. Miller, a Pulitzer prize winning journalist left the Times in disgrace. Her downfall came as a result of her reporting on Iraq's WMD program which was influential in gaining support from the US mainstream but proved to be false.

NEW YORK Three years after her difficult departure from The New York Times, Judith Miller says she still misses some of the people she worked with and the "excitement of the newsroom." She also says the Times remains "indispensable."

But in today's difficult economic atmosphere, she is glad to be out of the newspaper game at a time when cutbacks and shorter stories are the norm. "The Times has been so gloomy, they have gotten rid of the Metro section," Miller said Monday in a cell phone interview. "It is a very challenging time for our business. Look at the disappearance of The [New York] Sun - it was a very useful addition, whatever you thought of their politics."