PressEthic

The AP ran a story today titledNew York Times ‘Frustrated’ by Miller Story, both explaining and criticizing the New York Times lack of information about the Judith Miller case.

The article quotes the NYT explaination:

She has been advised by her lawyers not to discuss her grand jury testimony until it has been completely finished, the Times's executive editor Bill Keller told Times employees in a memo sent Tuesday.

Miller was still under a contempt-of-court order and was ''not yet clear of legal jeopardy,'' Keller said. ''As we've told readers, once her obligations to the grand jury are fulfilled, we intend to write the most thorough story we can of her entanglement with the White House leak investigation.''

But, the article also cites people who have been critical of the NYT coverage, including professor Jay Rosen, saying:

The Times' silence so far about what Miller knew in the Plame affair has led some pundits to criticize the paper, such as New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen. ''Not only is the Times not operating properly, it's unable to say to readers: here's why we're not,'' Rosen wrote on his media commentary site called PressThink.

Indeed, Professor Rosen’s post, The Times at Bay: Armchair Critic Speculates is the most enlightening and thought provoking article I’ve read about the Miller case since she’s been released, even if it is mostly speculation.