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Infamous

Politics Collection: “Little Miss Run Amok” I Part 3

Infamous

Sony Music

True Crime, News, Relationships, Entertainment News, Society & Culture

3.8964 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Judith Miller is publicly taken to task by her own editors. But when she’s entangled in a scandal, being fired from the Times ends up being the least of her problems. Subscribe to The Binge to get all episodes of Infamous: “Little Miss Run Amok” ad-free right now. Click ‘try free’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts to start your free trial or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. A Campside Media & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:14.9

I'm Aaron Moriarty of 48 hours and of all the cases I've covered this is the one that troubles me most a bizarre and maddening tale involving an eyewitness account that doesn't quite make sense. A sister testified against a brother, a lack of physical evidence. Krossy Green has lived more than half his

0:19.7

life behind bars for a crime he says he didn't commit.

0:22.8

Listen to Murder in the Orange Grove,

0:24.8

the Troubled Case Against Crawley Green,

0:26.7

wherever you get your podcasts.

0:28.8

Campside Media.

0:35.0

For much of her life, Judith Miller was a very incisive foreign correspondent.

0:40.0

She was downright badass. This is a woman who had traveled the Arab world by bus, wearing a head-to-toe

0:48.0

Abaya. She had reported from Beirut during the war, where a hotel clerk asked her if she'd prefer the

0:56.2

shelling or the car bomb side of the hotel. She'd even talked her way into

1:01.0

reporting from a prison in Saudi Arabia.

1:05.1

Judy did all this, she thought, with high-minded purpose.

1:10.2

She dedicated her life, as she said said to wrestling with history, memory, and the obligation of civilized people to confront evil.

1:22.0

But now, Judy seemed to be on the other side of that line. Rather than

1:27.7

confronting those in power, she appeared to be doing their bidding. So a few years into the disastrous war in Iraq,

1:37.0

Judith's career and her reputation were hanging in the balance.

1:42.0

When everything started to fall apart for her... were hanging in the balance.

1:42.8

When everything started to fall apart for her,

1:45.5

she became the biggest get in media reporting.

1:49.4

But that challenge for a journalist like Gabe is dangling a T-bone steak before a bulldog.

1:57.0

I had written a whole series of stories and I had just been desperate to tell her side of it so I just just kept calling her and calling her and

2:03.8

emailing and and finally she agreed to talk to me I rented a car to go on a

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