By Pepper of the Daily Pepper
I saw two headlines on the web recently: "Judith Miller to Leave New York Times" and "Desperate Housewives' Actor Fired"
Judith Miller is, well, famous. The actor, Page Kennedy, involved is an unknown. I don't watch the show. There's too much suburban satire out there anyway. But why is it that Judith Miller gets to "leave" while someone else gets "fired"?
What she did is grounds for what I call "firing." If I called myself "Miss Run Amok," ignored my editors, and started making up stuff about music videos, then I would be "fired." If I became "entangled" in any way - and I don't want to know anything about a possible Libby-Miller "entanglement" - I would be fired. Not let go. Not laid off. Fired. "Fired" is an appropriate word for Judith Miller. Now, Aaron Brown is "leaving." He is going to another network now that Anderson Cooper is hot both physically and figuratively. He didn't get canned for blowing one of the biggest stories of all time. What Judith Miller did earned her a firing.
