Norman Pearlstine, the editor in chief of Time Inc, to step down... Developing...

The Drudge Report ^ | oct. 16, 2005 | M Drudge

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Drudge headline. No link yet

[piasa]

el Pingo.

[PilloryHillary]

Verrrry interesting.

[blogblogginaway]

Moderator.... Perhaps this should be in breaking.

[piasa]

One of your earlier catches...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1495758/posts
Time Editor Plans Book on Sources (Norman Pearlstine)
Dateline Alabama.com ^ | Oct. 3, 2005 | ap

Posted on 10/03/2005 9:13:15 AM PDT by blogblogginaway

Time Inc. editor in chief Norman Pearlstine, who made the controversial choice last summer to turn over the notes of a reporter threatened with jail for refusing to identify a source, is writing a book about anonymous sources.
"Off the Record" is scheduled to be published by Nan A. Talese, an imprint of Doubleday, in 2007.
In a decision that brought criticism from his peers in journalism, Pearlstine agreed to comply with a court order to turn over notes by Time reporter Matt Cooper. They were sought by a special federal prosecutor investigating who in the Bush administration leaked the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame, a possible federal crime.
"The Valerie Plame case led to the most difficult decision I have had to make in my 37 years working as an editor and reporter," Pearlstine said in a statement issued Monday by Doubleday.
"But it taught me a lot about how anonymous and confidential sources have been used and misused, leading to some of our best and worst journalism. The professional and personal reflections that prefaced my decision also gave me insights into the standards and guidelines needed to help restore journalism and the publics faith in it."

(Excerpt) Read more at tuscaloosanews.com ...

[Cicero]

No doubt the search is on for someone worse to replace him.

[blogblogginaway]

I wonder what the heck is really going on? Or should I say what the heck really 'went' on? I've never seen a more BS story than Miller's 'explanation' on why she did time and what her GJ testimony consisted of. Something 'odd' went on here to say the least.

[blogblogginaway]

His stepping down was already out last Friday....

Posted on Fri, Oct. 07, 2005

Time chief expected to leave by end of year

SETH SUTEL

Associated Press


NEW YORK - Norman Pearlstine, the longtime editorial chief of the Time Inc. magazine empire, is planning to step aside by the end of the year or even sooner, several people familiar with the matter said Friday.

Pearlstine is likely to be succeeded as editor-in-chief of Time Inc. by John Huey, who is currently the editorial director, according to people who spoke on condition they not be named since the announcement had not been made.

The move has been widely anticipated for months, but the timing was uncertain.

Earlier this week, Pearlstine announced plans to write a book. Pearlstine, who is 63 years old, has been editor-in-chief of Time Inc. for 11 years. Huey is 57.

Dawn Bridges, a spokeswoman for Time Inc., declined to comment.

The New York Post and The Wall Street Journal both ran stories on the matter on Friday............


http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/business/12844526.htm

[piasa]

To: cyncooper

The "Newsday" subpena list says these 5 Time journalists were subpenaed:

Matthew Cooper, John Dickerson, Massimo Calabresi, Michael Duffy and James Carney, Time magazine; Cooper contributed to the above story, Duffy and Carney are the lead writers.

26 posted on 02/27/2005 3:16:12 PM PST by Shermy

[piasa]

Let me guess- was it announced last Friday right after Rush Limbaugh went off the air, in classic Clintonista fashion?

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---------- "IRAQ: A Question Of Trust - The CIA's Tenet takes the fall for a flawed claim...... : A Question Of Trust : The CIA's Tenet takes the fall for a flawed claim in the State of the Union, but has Bush's credibility taken an even greater hit?," By MICHAEL DUFFY AND JAMES CARNEY in N A T I O N section , TIME, July 21, 2003 Vol. 162 No. 3 —With reporting by Massimo Calabresi, Matthew Cooper and Adam Zagorin/Washington, John F. Dickerson with Bush in Africa, J.F.O. McAllister/London and Andrew Purvis/Vienna

[blogblogginaway]

They've all written articles relating to the Plame case.

http://www.time.com/time/archive/collections/0,21428,c_cia_leak,00.shtml

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

So, while the MSM is all a twitter about CIA WH leaks, in the meantime, it appears with Miller debacle, and possibly this, the law of unintended consequences is kicking in.

[piasa]

The above Time article was dated Sunday, July 13, 2003; it appeared on TIME's web site on July 17th, 2003 in TIME Magazine's July 21, 2003 Vol. 162 No. 3 issue.

[halley]

Think this important? This ain't nothin'. The much bigger news is the investigation of Time Inc's circulation practices. (see http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/050923/time_inc_circulation.html?.v=4).

Their liability here runs into the BILLIONS. They've been cheating the advertising community for years, all while playing a holier than thou game with other publishers. 1 out of every 4 or 5 dollars spent on print advertising in the United States goes through Time Ince, and they are a truly evil empire. I know... I'm in that business.

I would love nothing better than to see this left wing monopoly taken down.

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[Fedora]

Thanks.

[piasa]

IMHO, I think a lot of the BS has to do with Alamoudi- there are figures in both parties, various lobbying groups, and the press that don't care to open up that can of worms any sooner than they have to. And some may not be able to given how much of the Global Relief Foundation thing is still under investigation, and how many of those people connected with it are undergoing trial, facing trial in the future, or still loose and in need of being hunted down.

Remember, we have Joseph Wilson, Kerry-team player, Rock Creek Corporation guy and former ambassador to Gabon playing a central role in this theater;

But we also have one of Norquist's buddies, David H. Safavian, who worked as a registered foreign agent of Gabon and the Republic of Congo. Safavian was the former procurement guy in the Federal Gov.

His wife, like Wilson's, bring to mind some conflict of interest problems since both have or had goverment jobs.

Gabon is a country which formerly openly exported uranium. Its mines supposedly dried up but that may have been a cover for a more profitable covert export of uranium.

Republic of Congo is of course another uranium source and one from which the US has procured uranium long ago. Al Qaeda reportedly sought uranium there on behalf of bin Laden- and prospectors have been scrounging around the abandoned mines since 1998 for uranium. In 2000, a Kenyan middleman offered to supply Iraq with uranium from Congo. North Korea has been meddling too. Congo exports cobalt and other mine products today. The country is a mess; the UN and the French are also involved. Not to mention South Africa.

There's a lot more to all this than meets the eye.

[Lancey Howard]

"The professional and personal reflections that prefaced my decision also gave me insights into the standards and guidelines needed to help restore journalism and the publics faith in it."

Sorry, Norm - - that toothpaste is out of the tube. People will always wonder how many Rathergates the dying socialist "mainstream" newrooms got away with over the decades before the new media took over.

There's no looking back now, Norm. It's over. Just go away. Maybe you could go boating with that scumbag Uncle Walter.

[Lancey Howard]

I think there is more than meets the eye going on between Libby and Miller. Somebody on another thread asked if maybe Miller was CIA. Anything's possible. Her pro-WMD stories leading up to the war still make my scalp itchy.