It's the $64,000 question: How much severance did Judy Miller get from the Times? Today's Page Six carries the first published speculation on the matter, saying "guesses range as high as $3 million." The specifics:
Just to prove that we never exaggerated intelligence reports regarding our yellowcake, here's the Billy's Bakery confection that was delivered to our Millerpalooza Sweepstakes winner Sunday afternoon.
Judy Miller has been the biggest medialand story of the last several weeks, and it all came to a head last week. It cost the woman her job and the Times yet more of its esteem, it raised questions about erstwhile savior Bill Keller's executive editorship, and it embarrassed the dauphin publisher to the point where…
Dueling self-justifications on TV last night.
We missed Judith Miller on Morning Edition this morning, because, well, we never listen to NPR. (Every now and again, we like to play against demographic type.) Thankfully, though, several of you have filled us in on what we missed:
The terms of the contest were simple: Give us your prediction of when news would break that Judy Miller was leaving the Times, and you'd win. There were all sorts of rules and regulations surrounding that basic challenge — closest without going over, time to be determined by the timestamp on the first Romenesko…
Judith Miller, you've just been humiliated by and forced to retire from the newspaper where you've worked for 28 years! Where are you going?
But, boy, is there a lot of shouting.
Oh, thank you, Gabriel Sherman, for finally bringing us some new Judy Miller news: She's leaving again! So what if it's a double-reverse of what you told us last week — at least it's something. (And, in fairness, you nicely explain away last week's she's-sticking-around story, reporting that the don't-go plan was a…
Here's all we got, sent in late yesterday afternoon: "Just saw Judith Miller sitting in Eileen's Cheesecake over on Kenmare Street. I did a double-take, as I thought she was Anna Wintour in her Vogue-worthy seafoam pants suit and bobbed coif. She was talking seriously to a blonde female companion and was gesturing…
Here's an idea for why Judy Miller had to go away — and why she's still away, and why no conclusion can be reached. She hasn't been in Sag Harbor at all, goes the theory — that claim is as invented as her "security clearance." Clearly, as a vigilant, and, apparently, televisually polylingual, reader has discovered,…
Tumbleweed, more or less.
• Anna Wintour celebrates her 56th year of making you feel fat and unfashionable!
• Big fun at Wenner Media: Because if you want something done properly, you do it yourself, Jann crowns himself EIC of Men's Journal while simultaneously killing off an upcoming celebrity title. But? At least the man gives his slaves …
Yesterday we learned that Judy Miller might now be — who'd have thunk it — staying at the Times, and yet today there's no follow-up. (Timesman David Barstow made a very limited Judy defense in Utah, but that doesn't count.) There's nothing more from the Observer, no second-day piece from the Times itself or from the …
As if it's not sad enough that Judy Miller is now seeking career counseling under the guise of "reporting," it's even worse that this once high-powered, well-sourced investigative dynamo has been reduced to posting on ProfNet, American's best way for lazy reporters to meet eager quote whores.
Hey, so remember last week when everyone said Judy Miller was on her way out of the Times? Well, hold up there, cowboy, because the winds they are a-shiftin'. As of today: Judy's back!
Every now and then, something cross our inbox so brilliant that we couldn't possibly add anything to it. (Rephrase: Every now and then, something cross our inbox so unbelievably brilliant that we're, atypically, not arrogant enough to think we can improve it.) This is one of those times. Ladies and gentleman, from…
Little new Judy Miller news today — she's still a Times employee, she's still not actually going in to work, she still doesn't have a book deal — except for yet another nail in the coffin, this time from L.A. Times house leftie Bob Scheer, who, in a neat rhetorical trick, blames Miller for John Kerry's presidential…
• R.W. Apple Jr., the Times political reporter-turned- professional gourmand and a guy who knows a thing or two about bigfooting through the newsroom, spoke yesterday at the Texas Book Festival. He was there to read from a new book on food, reports the Austin American-Statesman, but also ended up taking questions on…
We're still accepting entries in the Millerpalooza Sweepstakes. Have a guess on when Judy finally puts on her Panama hat and leaves 43rd Street for the last time? Then play along. Read the rules here, and then send your guess to us here: tips@gawker.com. Here's the new wrinkle, though: The entry period will end at…
