Judy [Miller] told The Times that she plans to write a book and intends to return to the newsroom, hoping to cover “the same thing I’ve always covered – threats to our country.” If that were to happen, the institution most in danger would be the newspaper in your hands.
Maureen Dowd in the concluding paragraph of today’s column
Other quotables from the column:
“I have often wondered what Waugh or Thackeray would have made of the Fourth Estate’s Becky Sharp.”
“But investigative reporting is not stenography.”