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Keller On Judith Miller's Life Behind Bars: Bad Food But Good Spirits |
Keller On Judith Miller's Life Behind Bars: Bad Food But Good Spirits
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000980703
By Joe Strupp
Published: July 18, 2005 3:40 PM ET
NEW YORK As Judith Miller of The New York Times approaches the end of
her second week in a Virginia jail, reports from behind bars reveal
she is enduring stomach problems from jail food. She is also sharing a
cell unit that had originally been designed to house just one person.
Because of that, Miller had been forced to sleep on a mattress on the
floor for a few days but now has her own bed.
"It has definitely dawned on her that this is really jail -- it is
certainly no summer camp," Times Executive Editor Bill Keller told E&P
Monday. "The food has not agreed with her and we have been trying to
impress on her that she needs to eat. We have been hammering that in."
Surprisingly few stories about Miller's experience in jail have
emerged, with just one such story in her own paper. "I don't want to
cross over the line into using the newspaper as a promotional vehicle
for her case," Keller explained. "The story she is caught up in is a
big story - to the extent she is news we will write about it. We
aren't going to start writing a Judy story everyday just to drum up
sympathy. That becomes advocacy instead of journalism."
Keller added that Miller has also been cautious about doing any press
interviews, saying "there is always a chance it could antagonize the
judge. If I were her, I would not want to take a chance, they still
control her life." When asked if Miller might write something
first-person about her time in jail, Keller said, "nothing I want to
talk about.
Keller said Miller had been trying to answer the many letters she has
received "as much as she can." Her time is also occupied with reading
from the prison library and watching CNN and Fox News when other
prisoners do not keep the shared television on hip-hop and rap music
videos. "Those seem to be the favorite of the cell block," the editor
said.
When he visited Miller last Tuesday, she "looked really thin to me"
and as though "she had not been eating," Keller reported. But, he said
her spirits were high, noting "she is feisty and she is firm in her
resolve that she is doing the right thing." Keller added that Miller
"has had a fairly regular stream of visitors. She sees the lawyers or
people from the lawyers' offices several times a week, or she sees
[attorney] Floyd [Abrams]."
Miller has been incarcerated since July 6, when U.S. District Court
Judge Thomas Hogan ordered her to jail for refusing to reveal her
source in the ongoing Valerie Plame case. She could spend up to four
months behind bars for refusing to disclose who revealed the identity
of Plame, a former CIA agent, to her2.
She is serving her time in the 'non-violent' wing of the Alexandria
Detention Center in Alexandria, Va., Keller said. Her first visitor
from the paper was Times Washington bureau chief Philip Taubman, with
Publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. planning to visit soon. Keller said
others from the paper have signed up for visits with her attorney,
while some have also received collect calls from her. The jail allows
prisoners to make unlimited collect calls out, but not to take
incoming calls.
"We are trying to pace out the visitors over time," Keller said. "So
she is aware we are with her. So she doesn't get a lot of visitors
right away and then none for a while."
Although visitors are limited to 30 minutes with each inmate, speaking
through plastic partitions, Keller said he got about 45 minutes with
Miller during his visit due to a lockdown earlier in the day limiting
previous visiting times.
"I was trying to get a feel for what her life was like, and let her
know what was going on at the paper," Keller said. "She has been
getting a lot of mail, from friends and colleagues, from sympathizers
and readers. Very heavily supportive." But, Keller added that
"everyone gets some wacko mail."
Miller "hasn't had any difficulty with other women in the cell block,"
Keller said. "She seems to be on fairly genial terms with some of
them. I think everyone in there knows what she's in for. She has a
higher public profile than most."
Keller also declined to discuss which legal options her attorneys were
pursuing to possibly have Miller released early: "My hope would be
that [Special Prosecutor Patrick] Fitzgerald would end the
investigation and disband the grand jury so she can get out."
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18 Jul 2005 04:02:00 PM |
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Keller On Judith Miller's Life Behind Bars: Bad Food But Good Spirits
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000980703
Of COURSE she's in good spirits. She's a lot safer in jail than she would
be walking around in Bushistan.
Except that I think she may be misunderestimating who is ***** at
Bush.
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18 Jul 2005 03:54:52 PM |
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Captain Compassion wrote:
Keller On Judith Miller's Life Behind Bars: Bad Food But Good Spirits
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000980703
By Joe Strupp
Published: July 18, 2005 3:40 PM ET
NEW YORK As Judith Miller of The New York Times approaches the end of
her second week in a Virginia jail, reports from behind bars reveal
she is enduring stomach problems from jail food. She is also sharing a
cell unit that had originally been designed to house just one person.
Because of that, Miller had been forced to sleep on a mattress on the
floor for a few days but now has her own bed.
Keller added that Miller has also been cautious about doing any press
interviews, saying "there is always a chance it could antagonize the
judge. If I were her, I would not want to take a chance, they still
control her life." When asked if Miller might write something
first-person about her time in jail, Keller said, "nothing I want to
talk about.
I TOLD you she is planning on getting a book deal out of this...
Keller said Miller had been trying to answer the many letters she has
received "as much as she can." Her time is also occupied with reading
from the prison library and watching CNN and Fox News when other
prisoners do not keep the shared television on hip-hop and rap music
videos. "Those seem to be the favorite of the cell block," the editor
said.
Oh that must be a hoot... she touches the channel and someone will beat
her *****.
Miller "hasn't had any difficulty with other women in the cell block,"
Keller said. "She seems to be on fairly genial terms with some of
them. I think everyone in there knows what she's in for. She has a
higher public profile than most."
yeah that worked so well it only took her a few days to get a bed :)
She's lucky none of the sisters realize she is one of the prime reasons
people thought sending their baby's daddy to Iraq was a good idea....
she stays in there long enough trying to watch CNN and someone is going
to get wise... then I think they may have to separate her.
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18 Jul 2005 03:36:58 PM |
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Captain Compassion wrote:
Keller On Judith Miller's Life Behind Bars: Bad Food But Good Spirits
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000980703
Does the NYT continue to pay her while behind bars?
If so, does that mean this is a working holiday??
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