We're not sure if Mitch Albom and Judy Miller have ever met, but they seem to have a lot in common, so we'd imagine the following conversation taking place:

Mitch: Well, I like long walks on the beach...
Judy: Really? So do I!
Mitch: And kittens...
Judy: You like kittens? I like kittens, too!
Mitch: And writing high profile pieces for large newspapers that may or may not contain factual inaccuracies...
Judy: Oh my god, so do I!
Mitch: Ah, but I bet you don't have a high placed editor protecting you!
Judy: Oh, Mitch, you're so funny! You know I do.

Murray Waas reports:

[a] senior newsroom source at the Free Press has told me that the newspaper's editor, Carole Leigh Hutton, has not been too happy with statements strongly condemning Albom. One long time veteran of the newspaper told me: "She is still not getting this." Leigh Hutton herself has publicly only described the incident as a "ridiculous" mistake. The failure of a stronger public judgment as to what Albom did-- even if this was just one act-- has begun to harm not only her newspaper, but ironically, now even Albom, the person she is trying to protect. Not only has her tepid response created a backlash among many reporters in her own newsroom, but also in the larger journalistic community, as is evidenced by the emails and letters posted by newspaper professionals from across the country, on Poynter's Jim Romenesko website.