N.Y. Times Staffers Voice Dismay at Newspaper's Coverage

The anguish among New York Times staffers over the paper's handling of the Judith Miller saga has mounted in recent days, much to the consternation of its top executives, according to Washington Post media critic gadfly Howard Kurtz in his column today.

Well get ready for more consternation, Times people. If I do not hear back from business editor Larry Ingrassia by Friday on my request for a hearing on his slander against me in the Times intranet concerning my work helping the Times cover the trial of deposed but acquitted HealthSouth founder Richard Scrushy, I am going to tell the whole story and e-mail it to every media critic and blogger in the country. I hate to do it, but if the mainstream media is going to behave corruptly, they have to be held to account in a democracy just as we hold government to account.