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...While this discussion was raging in the publisher's office and in San Jose, DeFede was back in the newsroom. Around 8 p.m., he handed the Teele tape to Judy Miller, the Herald's managing editor in charge of news and features. Then he sat down at his computer to write a column on Teele's final hours...
...pleaded my case as best I could,? DeFede says. ?I went from consoling this man, to finding he was dead. To them sneaking me in through the back entrance, the freight entrance, of the Herald to avoid the police out front. They are firing me and they're still cleaning up Art Teele's blood in the lobby.? Fiedler says his decision to fire DeFede was based solely on the taped telephone call. He denies that it had anything to do with criticism of DeFede from the expatriate Cuban community in Miami. The Cuban exile community had been angered...
...provoke discussion that forced others to think about their position. Jim did exactly what I would want any good columnist to do. He certainly exceeded any expectations. How the community saw Jim had nothing to do with this decision. What mattered to me was how anyone dealing with the Herald would view this a year or two from...
...Other journalists at the Herald have pointed out that at least one other reporter surreptitiously taped but didn't get fired. ?This has happened before,? says one long-time veteran of the Herald newsroom. ?There's been no policy on this. The couple of instances that it has happened before it was between you and your editor. You get slapped on the hand and nobody needs to know about it.? Peter Wallsten, a former Miami Herald political correspondent who now reports on the White House for the Los Angeles Times has created a website for journalists to sign a petition...
...Miami-Dade County State Attorney's Office is still ruminating over whether to charge DeFede with the unlawful taping. In the meantime, the Herald says it will continue to pay for any legal representation that DeFede may need. DeFede still holds out hope that he can get his old job back. He bemoans the fact that he never spoke directly with Fiedler before he was fired. (Fiedler says that he had hoped to speak to DeFede but said that airport security had taken his cellphone away as he was going through the checkpoint prior to boarding. That's when Diaz...