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August 10, 2007
Times Reporter Linda Greenhouse Hides From Cameras
Columbia Journalism Review reports on a reporter who has learned to hide from the media spotlight:
For Supreme Court buffs who watch C-SPAN, yesterday morning was one of disappointment. A promising panel discussion, "Covering the Court(s): Reporters on the Supreme Court Beat," that included a bevy of court reporting superstars — like Charles Lane from The Washington Post and Dahlia Lithwick from Slate — was to be televised. But, at the last minute, the plug was pulled on the C-SPAN cameras because the queen bee of Supreme Court reporters, Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times refused to join the panel if the event was going to be covered by the wonky news channel.
According to Queen Greenhouse:
I didn't want to have to modulate my comments for a national audience.
As C-SPAN VP of programming Terence Murphy wonders:
If professors of journalism and working journalists taking part in a journalism education conference don't stand up for open media access to public policy discussions, who will?
NewsBusters isn't happy about it either:
As the self-appointed "fourth branch" of government ostensibly entrusted by the public with exposing the activities of the other branches, journalists should never ban others from covering their own activities. Then again, we should hardly expect professional behavior from a SCOTUS reporter who marched in a pro-choice protest while covering abortion for her paper.
Greenhouse may have learned the hard way to keep her views shrouded from the public. At a Harvard speech last June, she made a complete fool of herself, pining for the hippy mentality of the 1960s, blathering about weeping at a Simon and Garfunkel concert, striking out at Christians, advocating abortion, denouncing Club Gitmo, and in short revealing herself to be exactly the sort of lunatic fringe leftist who would earn a Pulitzer churning out propaganda for the NY Times.
Needless to say, no reasonable person would expect her reporting on controversial Supreme Court rulings to be impartial, once having gotten a whiff of her extremist ideology. Even NPR was taken aback by her lack of professionalism.
Now she hides her perspective from the public, behind the facade of journalistic objectivity the willfully naive might still believe applies to the Times.
Posted by Van Helsing at August 10, 2007 12:14 PM
Comments
Bias? ... At the NYT? Who knew? Of course, what would we expect of a NYT reporter-babe covering the SCOTUS. Funny how all of her personal preferences in re SCOTUS jurisprudence derive from about the time the Court decided to go voodooing through the Bill of Rights to conjure up "emanations" and "penumbras" (where for some strange reason none had ever been noticed before), coming forward to the astrology chart reasoning of the sitting Justice Stevens. Truly amazing.
Posted by: monsoon at August 10, 2007 12:43 PM
God Damn that bitch is a horse face. With those 2 front teeth she could eat an apple thru a picket fence! What? No good dental plan The New York Times offers its employees now? I guess with lower circulation and ad revenue they gotta cut costs somewhere.
Posted by: Bryherb at August 10, 2007 12:58 PM
"...court reporting superstars..."
And some think that the CJR has no sense of humor!
What next? Superstars of darts?
Does anyone actually watch C-SPAN, or know anyone who has?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 10, 2007 1:31 PM
Seriously, though, her hiding from cameras isn't an entirely bad thing.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 10, 2007 1:33 PM
"I didn't want to have to modulate my comments for a national audience."
according to webster's
modulate
One entry found for modulate.
Main Entry: mod·u·late
Pronunciation: 'mä-j&-"lAt
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -lat·ed; -lat·ing
Etymology: Latin modulatus, past participle of modulari to play, sing, from modulus small measure, rhythm, diminutive of modus measure -- more at METE
transitive verb
1 : to tune to a key or pitch
2 : to adjust to or keep in proper measure or proportion : TEMPER
3 : to vary the amplitude, frequency, or phase of (a carrier wave or a light wave) for the transmission of information (as by radio); also : to vary the velocity of electrons in an electron beam
intransitive verb
1 : to play or sing with modulation
2 : to pass from one musical key into another by means of intermediary chords or notes that have some relation to both keys
3 : to pass gradually from one state to another
So what do you think she actually meant?
Posted by: Joe buz at August 10, 2007 1:52 PM
Sick!
Posted by: 1911 Liberator at August 10, 2007 2:44 PM
Why are liberal women so... butt ugly?
Drop her in a barrel of water you'd skim ugly for a week.
Posted by: Jimbo at August 10, 2007 3:16 PM
Being pro-abortion with liberal women like this to choose from means only one thing...The liberal herd should be thinning out fast.
eat an apple through a picket fence...my sides are hurtin'.....good one
Posted by: Hemlock at August 10, 2007 5:09 PM
hahahaha
"Drop her in a barrel of water you'd skim ugly for a week"
funniest thing I've read all week.
Posted by: NudeGayWhalesForJesus at August 10, 2007 5:45 PM
In her previous self I can understand why Greenhouse limited her appearances because she had no chin. Now that she has a new one you would think she would want to be seen everywhere.
Posted by: pocomoco at August 10, 2007 7:17 PM
When I saw the photo, I thought I'd race right onto the comments section with my freshest "beaver-like chompers" comment.
I see I was way too late...
Posted by: Nigel at August 11, 2007 10:31 AM
Gee whiz; That face will you indigestion! She needs to dye her eyebrows to match that lovely hairdo!
I bet she coughs up furballs!
Posted by: Silver Spur Guns at August 11, 2007 1:41 PM
I think "lunatic fringe leftist who would earn a Pulitzer churning out propaganda for the NY Times" just about sums up the condition of the MSM. Thank God for the Internet.
Posted by: AWOL Civilization at August 11, 2007 2:13 PM
Just watched the DVD of "Disturbia." It can't hold a candle to that photo of Mz. Greenhouse (surprised she doesn't cover Anthropogenic Global Warming for the NYT, with a name, and a face, like that; she could always legally change her name a little, to: Greenhousegasses).
There's a distinct possibility, I'd have to say, that she will take a self-imposed dirt nap should GWB appoint another Justice to the Supremes before his term is out -- Life just won't be worth living anymore . . .
Posted by: jc14 at August 11, 2007 3:05 PM
Has there ever been a generation in history that was more in love with itself then the Boomers? I clicked on the link and read Greenhouse's Harvard speech.
When I was in college I had a Prof tell me that he could never understand why anybody would feel nostalgia for the 1960s. His point was, we remember the music and the fashions, but we seem to forget the riots, the assassinations, the war in Vietnam, etc. He was an Old School Liberal. He said two good things came out of the 1960s: the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He said the rest of that decade was a disaster. "Feeling nostalgia for the 1960s, would be like feeling nostalgia for the Great Depression," he said.
By the way, could we stop knocking people for the way they look? Attack their ideas, not their physical appearance. I know, Greenhouse rates low on the Babe-o-Meter, but let's be fair here. If Anne Coulter looked like this, some of you guys would think she was ready for Playboy.
Posted by: phil at August 12, 2007 10:26 AM
kiss me again, bucky - my throat itches!
oh, that was bad...
somebody stop me!
Posted by: nanc at August 12, 2007 1:28 PM
Have to go with Phil on this one...I don't care WHAT she looks like.
It's what's upstairs that counts. I know it's great fun, but could you boys & girls be a little less sophomoric?
Posted by: fellowes at August 12, 2007 10:45 PM
Like most libs she doesn't want people to know just how much she hates America
Posted by: Bandit at August 13, 2007 7:04 AM
dratz - leave it to fellowes to be the voice of reason...sorry...
what jimbo said has a ring of truth to it you must admit, no?
Posted by: nanc at August 13, 2007 8:57 AM
