{"id":1277,"date":"2005-10-23T09:13:59","date_gmt":"2005-10-23T16:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/10\/battle_of_the_babes\/"},"modified":"2005-10-23T09:13:59","modified_gmt":"2005-10-23T16:13:59","slug":"battle_of_the_babes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/10\/battle_of_the_babes.html","title":{"rendered":"BATTLE OF THE BABES"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Maureen<\/a>\"Judy<\/a> Maureen Dowd got personal with Judy Miller in her column headlined, “Woman of Mass Destruction,” on Saturday. We’d rather call it the battle of the babes<\/strong><\/font><\/a>. Dowd, left, began by declaring, “I’ve always liked Judy Miller” — which made us think uh-oh<\/i> — and ended by declaring:<\/p>\n

Judy 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In between the start and the finish, a nicely sketched anecdote showed that Dowd was back in the sort of form so lacking in her columns ever since she returned from book leave or vacation or whatever:<\/p>\n

Once when I was covering the first Bush White House, I was in The Times’s seat in the crowded White House press room, listening to an administration official’s background briefing. Judy had moved on from her tempestuous tenure as a Washington editor to be a reporter based in New York, but she showed up at this national security affairs briefing.
\nAt first she leaned against the wall near where I was sitting, but I noticed that she seemed agitated about something. Midway through the briefing, she came over and whispered to me, “I think I should be sitting in the Times seat.” It was such an outrageous move, I could only laugh. I got up and stood in the back of the room, while Judy claimed what she felt was her rightful power perch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Because Dowd’s columns are now hidden behind a subscription curtain, we thought we’d quote it to illustrate the flavor of her nasty, personal best. Coincidentally, the moral she drew — that Miller’s return would be, uhm, not so good for The Times — neatly dovetailed with Bill Keller’s guilty plea<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, issued in a memo late Friday afternoon, which made it a fair assumption that Miss Run Amuck is unlikely to be allowed back to cover anything at all. Then we got to thinking, was Dowd’s column actually a coincidence? Gee, hmmm, etc.
\n— Tireless Staff of Thousands<\/i>
\nPostscript:<\/strong> Jim Romenesko writes: “Dowd column is
\nhere<\/strong><\/font><\/a>. I suspect this is a case where the Times won’t threaten the webmaster for running the column.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maureen Dowd got personal with Judy Miller in her column headlined, “Woman of Mass Destruction,” on Saturday. We’d rather call it Bill Keller’s guilty plea, issued in a memo late Friday afternoon, which made it a fair assumption that Miss Run Amuck is unlikely to be allowed back to cover anything at all. Then we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-kB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}