Funny thing: he hadn’t. Last week Time apologized to Doder, agreeing to pay $262,000 to settle his U.K. libel suit. The magazine will also pay Doder’s legal bills, estimated at upwards of $1 million. Time said it ““had no evidence, and did not mean to suggest that the KGB exercised control over Doder’s reporting.''
Doder, 59, is now a senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, in Washington, D.C. ““The core of my journalistic integrity had been challenged, and I beat Time,’’ he says. ““Now I can go on with my life.’’ Time’s piece asked, ““Where is the line between responsibly using information obtained from inside sources and uncritically reflecting those sources’ views?’’ Doder seems to have known where it was all along.
