News media must stand together in Plame case

 

Published in the Ocean County Observer 10/24/04

Robert Novak gets a pass on outing one of our own spies during a war, on national TV, yet New York Times reporter Judith Miller faces jail for refusing to testify by naming people in the White House she has talked to concerning this same situation.

Miller, who gathered material for the story in question but never wrote it, was held in contempt by a judge in Washington.

A reporter now might go to jail for not printing a story about our spy.

Nothing is happening or is likely to happen to Novak for the naming of Valerie Plame, the wife of former national security official Joseph Wilson on national TV.

Wilson charged that the White House, under President Bush, ignored him when he warned that reports of Iraq trying to buy uranium in Africa were unfounded.

Is everyone running scared of reporting the truth?

Novak is a rabid Bush fan, so he gets away with everything, including putting in jeopardy one of our spies and all her contacts.

Miller works for a paper that criticizes Bush, so she gets thrown in jail.

The moral is: Newspeople must stand together or hang alone.

EDWARD PICCIUT
Toms River

from the Ocean County Observer

Published on October 24, 2004
 

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