Gossip's Last Grove: Judy Miller Called Me From Jail

Lloyd Grove, who left his Lowdown gossip column at the Daily News and has been blogging today over at Gawker, had to jump through some ethical hula hoops during his tenure:

Before accepting the Daily News job from [Mort] Zuckerman — who enjoyed a reputation for involving himself in his editors’ journalistic judgments — I asked him how he saw his role in my prospective column. “My role,” he told me over coffee in an outdoor cafe on Capitol Hill, “will be to open my newspaper and read it.”