{"id":1285,"date":"2005-10-25T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-25T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/10\/dumping_on_miss_run_amuck\/"},"modified":"2005-10-25T10:50:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-25T17:50:00","slug":"dumping_on_miss_run_amuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/10\/dumping_on_miss_run_amuck.html","title":{"rendered":"DUMPING ON MISS RUN AMUCK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/15384\" class=inline target=new\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Elizabeth Barrett Browning\" src=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/images\/authors\/ebbrowni.jpg\" width=100 align=left border=0 \/><\/a>Judy Miller gets no sympathy from us, for all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/issues\/2005\/5\/mccollam.asp\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>obvious reasons<\/strong><\/font><\/a>. Still,  the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/postopinion\/editorial\/30010.htm\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;Dump on Judy&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a> movement, as an editorial in the New York Post puts it, does make the powers-that-be at The New York Times look pretty shabby (despite wrongly contending that &#8220;partisan politics&#8221; has trumped &#8220;journalistic ethics&#8221; ). Even our poet, who takes his inspiration from Elizabeth Barrett Browning, above, and not from the Post, says so:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/15384\" class=inline target=new\"><font color=#000000><br \/>\n<strong><i>HOW DO WE LOVE THEE?<\/a><br \/>LET US COUNT THE TIMES<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;We&#8217;re behind you, Judy, 700 percent,&#8221;<br \/>\nAver both Bill and Pinch<br \/>\nAs they greet her in the city room<br \/>\nAnd embrace her in a clinch.<br \/>\nDays later, &#8220;We&#8217;re with you 300 percent,&#8221;<br \/>\nAffirm both Pinch and Bill.<br \/>\nAnd when the honeymoon goes kaboom:<br \/>\n&#8220;Judy, make that nil.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2004\/04\/hes_our_calvin.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8212; Leon Freilich<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/i><br \/>\nBut here&#8217;s one more reason not to have sympathy for Miss Run Amuck: Anyone who has ever worked in a newsroom knows there are plenty of lamebrains and boneheads &#8212; call them editors &#8212; eager to assert their authority (and that&#8217;s not counting the smart but spineless ones) over reporters who challenge them. All these editors have to do now to get their way is point to the Judy fiasco.<br \/>\n<i>&#8212; Tireless Staff of Thousands<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>obvious reasons. Still, the HOW DO WE LOVE THEE?LET US COUNT THE TIMES &#8220;We&#8217;re behind you, Judy, 700 percent,&#8221; Aver both Bill and Pinch As they greet her in the city room And embrace her in a clinch. Days later, &#8220;We&#8217;re with you 300 percent,&#8221; Affirm both Pinch and Bill. 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