Bill Keller reports onJudith Miller’s prison conditions:
“It has definitely dawned on her that this is really in 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.”
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].”
Maybe I am just reading the story wrong, but when the Executive Editor of one of the premier newspapers in the country is this far out of touch with what prison life is like, it really explains a great deal about the sorry state of the media. And by comparison, Judith Miller’s conditions are a cakewalk compared to most lock-ups.