Jon Miller found out that he was being replaced the usual way, via a reporter

Talk about back stabbing. According to a source in today's NY Times, former AOL CEO Jon Miller didn't know that his bosses were talking with Randy Falco to replace him. However being the business diplomat that he is, Jon Miller bowed out on a good note. Mr. Falco's hiring came as a surprise to Mr. Miller and other executives at AOL. Mr. Miller had just reorganized the Time Warner unit after its transition to a new strategy of offering the AOL service free to people with high-speed Internet connections. Mr. Miller had periodically been seeking a strong operating executive to help him run AOL and, at Mr. Bewkes’s suggestion, had recently had a drink with Mr. Falco. He did not know until a reporter called AOL on Tuesday that Mr. Falco was in talks to replace him, according to two people who had spoken with Mr. Miller. Mean while, Randy Falco is only bring his operational strengths to AOL, leading us to believe that he will only be signing the checks, not necessarily coming up with the new and exciting things companies like AOL need to stat ahead of the game, or at least in it. NBC Executive Is Expected to Bring Operational Strengths to AOL [NYT]