All the president's friends: Miller's gone, and Woodward is (voila!) forgiven. And the editors of our leading newspapers are clueless about the respect they've lost.(MEDIA)(Judy Miller and Bob Woodward cases)

"LIKE MOST PEOPLE AT THE TIMES," New York Times executive editor Bill Keller told a Princeton gathering on November 14, "I am suffering from a serious case of Judy Miller fatigue." Aren't we all? But before we succumb, a deeper look would be timely.

The Miller case turns out to be part of an epidemic in need of a proper diagnosis. The very day Keller was criticizing Miller's WMD coverage while congratulating the paper for airing its dirty laundry, Bob Woodward, American journalism's knight in tarnished armor, was giving a deposition to the grand jury called ...

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