Everything about Linda Greenhouse totally explained
Linda Greenhouse (born
1947-01-09 in
New York City) is a
Pulitzer Prize winning
reporter who covered the
United States Supreme Court for three decades for the
The New York Times.
Education
Greenhouse received her
BA degree in government from
Radcliffe College in 1968 and a Master of Studies in Law from
Yale Law School in 1978. She has been a regular guest on the
PBS program
Washington Week.
In 2008, Greenhouse accepted an offer from the New York Times for an early retirement.
Awards and Prizes
Greenhouse was awarded the
Pulitzer Prize in Journalism (
Beat Reporting) in
1998 "for her consistently illuminating coverage of the United States Supreme Court." In 2004, she received the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism and the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism. She was a Radcliffe Institute Medal winner in 2006.
When she was at Radcliffe, she said in a speech given in 2006, "I was the Harvard stringer for the
Boston Herald, which regularly printed, and paid me for, my accounts of student unrest and other newsworthy events at Harvard. But when it came time during my senior year to look for a job in journalism, the Herald wouldn't even give me an interview, and neither would the
Boston Globe, because these newspapers had no interest in hiring women."
Criticism of Greenhouse
Some critics on the political right, notably retired Appeals Court Judge
Laurence H. Silberman have complained of what they call the "Greenhouse Effect." They believe that some federal judges have changed their opinions to win favorable coverage, either in the
New York Times or in the legal press in general, which they view as being part of the "Liberal Establishment." This criticism seems directed less at Greenhouse personally than at a general assumption of a
liberal media bias.
In 1989, she was rebuked by
Times editors for participating in an abortion-rights rally in Washington. Though the
New York Times public editor
Daniel Okrent attests that he's never received a single complaint of bias in Greenhouse's coverage, some other media observers have been critical of the perception of bias that her personal actions create.
Harvard speech
She has also faced criticism for expressing publicly (at
Harvard University in June, 2006) her personal views supporting abortion rights and criticism of US policies and actions at
Guantanamo Bay,
Abu Ghraib, and
Haditha.
"The notion that someone can't go and speak from the heart to a group of college classmates and fellow alums, without being accountable to self-appointed media watchdogs, means American journalism is in danger of strangling in its own sanctimony," Greenhouse said.
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