Dowdmiller: Catfight Extraordinaire

I couldn't describe the Dowd-Miller spat any better than Myrna Blyth in NRO:

It is Mean Girl vs. Mean Girl in the high-school cafeteria. And who needs hair pulling or nail scratching when you have an op-ed column of your very own?

Of course, Maureen complaining that Judy is a diva is sort of like the pot taking off on the kettle. And bringing up the time Judy wanted Maureen, who was then the Times’s official White House correspondent, to give up “the New York Times seat” to her at a White House press briefing does show what a calculating piece of work Miller can be. But then for Maureen to remember this and use it against Miller 15 years later shows Maureen is some piece of work, too. And Maureen‘s putting down Judy for having influential men friends at the paper while she has had a few of them herself…? Obviously the Times newsroom was never big enough for the two of them.

Blyth was at a luncheon honoring courageous women in journalism when this story came to her, because of the contrast Dowdmiller presents to the winners of the award, a couple of real and heroic journalists. I suggest you read on.