THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2006
Columbia Journalism Review
Newsday's
Timothy M. Phelps asks that in his "My Plame Problem -- and Yours" piece. Phelps -- one of the first reporters contacted by special prosecutor
Patrick Fitzgerald -- writes: "I was reporting in southern Iraq in July and largely out of touch with what was happening in Washington, though I knew that [
Judith] Miller went to jail on July 6. ...When I returned from Iraq in early August I was dumbfounded at the lack of attention she was getting. A national reporter was in jail for the first time in years, and, apart from the occasional editorial in the Times and a persistent cry for help from
Lou Dobbs of CNN, there was almost nothing in the press. Where was the outrage?"
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