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Topic: Miscellaneous items
Date/Time: 7/11/2005 7:44:05 AM
Title: LAT's "clever" Miller-Kinsley debate proposal
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
E-mail exchange between NYT's Keller and LAT's Goldberg

From: Goldberg, Nick
Sent: 07/10/2005 12:22 AM
To: [Bill Keller]

Bill --

I'm the editor of the op-ed page of the LA Times. You and I worked together briefly back when Mike Kinsley wrote his first piece opposing Judy Miller's right to protect her source. You wrote a rebuttal piece that we printed.

He's written various other pieces of the same sort since then and has another coming out tomorrow that once again states his position that a reporters' right to protect his or her source is not necessarily more important than the government's right to get the information it needs. He specifically takes on the long NYT editorial that ran a few days ago.

This is a bit of a long shot, but I thought that perhaps Judy Miller would like to write some kind of rejoinder (especially now that Kinsley's columns and editorials, as I understand it, are being used by the prosecutor to help make his case).

Is such a thing possible? Is there a way to contact her and ask if she's interested?

Nick Goldberg

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From: Bill Keller
To: Nick Goldberg
Date: Jul 10, 2005 12:17 PM

Dear Nick,

How clever of the Los Angeles Times to propose that Judy Miller debate Mike Kinsley on the subject of press freedom. Sadly, Judy is not on a fellowship at some writers' colony. She is in JAIL. She is sleeping on a foam mattress on the floor, and her communications are, shall we say, constrained.

I have to tell you that Mike's contrarian intellectualizing on the subject of reporters and the law was more amusing when it was all hypothetical. Back then it was just punditry. But that was before Norm Pearlstine embraced acquiescence as corporate policy, and before Judy Miller braved the real-world discomforts of the moral high ground. Of course this is an important issue, and clever minds should wrestle with it. But at the moment Kinsley and Pearlstine seem perversely remote from the world where actual reporters work.

Regards, Bill

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