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'{{Infobox person | name = Linda Greenhouse | image = Linda Greenhouse, 2005.jpg | image_size = 175px | caption = Linda Greenhouse in [[San Francisco]] in 2005 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|1|9}} | birth_place = [[New York City]] | occupation = [[Journalist]] | known_for = [[Pulitzer Prize]] winner }} '''Linda Greenhouse''' (born January 9, 1947) is the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph M. Goldstein Senior Fellow at Yale Law School.<ref>{{Cite book | url = http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/LGreenhouse.htm | publisher = [[Yale Law School]] | title = Linda Greenhouse}}</ref> She is a [[Pulitzer Prize]] winning [[reporter]] who covered the [[United States Supreme Court]] for nearly three decades for ''[[The New York Times]].''<ref name=NYT20080714>{{cite news | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/14/business/media/14askthetimes.html | title = Talk to the Newsroom: Supreme Court Reporter | publisher = [[The New York Times]] | date = 2008-07-14}}</ref> ==Early life== Greenhouse was born in [[New York City]]. She received her [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] degree in government from [[Radcliffe College]] in 1968 where she was elected to [https://www.pbk.org/home/index.aspx Phi Beta Kappa]. She received her Master of Studies in Law<ref name="YaleMSL">{{cite web |url=http://www.law.yale.edu/academics/mslprogram.asp | title=Yale Law School : M.S.L. Program |accessdate=2007-10-07 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20071006212049/http://www.law.yale.edu/academics/mslprogram.asp <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2007-10-06}}</ref> from [[Yale Law School]] in 1978.<ref name="pulitzer"/> ==Career== Greenhouse began her 40-year career at ''The New York Times'' covering state government in the paper's bureau in [[Albany, New York|Albany]].<ref name=NYT20080714/> After completing her Master's degree on a [[Ford Foundation]] fellowship, she returned to the ''Times'' and covered 29 sessions of the Supreme Court from 1978 to 2007,<ref name=NYT20080713>{{cite news | author = Greenhouse, Linda | date = 2008-07-13 | title = 2,691 Decisions | publisher = [[The New York Times]] | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/weekinreview/13linda.html | accessdate = 2007-07-13}}</ref> with the exception of two years during the mid-1980s during which she covered [[Congress of the United States|Congress]].<ref name="pulitzer"/> Since 1981, she has authored over 2,800 articles for ''The New York Times.''<ref>{{cite web | url = http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/linda_greenhouse/index.html?8qa | title = Linda Greenhouse | accessdate = 2007-10-07 | work = [[The New York Times]]}}</ref> She has been a regular guest on the [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] program ''[[Washington Week]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/aroundthetable/greenhouse.html | title = Washington Week. Linda Greenhouse | accessdate = 2007-10-07 | publisher = [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070911222443/http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/aroundthetable/greenhouse.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2007-09-11}}</ref> In 2008, Greenhouse accepted an offer from ''The Times'' for an early retirement at the end of the Supreme Court session in the summer of 2008.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/5575780.html |title=NYT's Greenhouse Takes Buyout Offer | publisher = [[Houston Chronicle]] | date = 2008-02-27 |accessdate=2008-02-28 |work=}}</ref><ref name=LegalTimes20080612>{{cite news | url=http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2008/06/goodbye-to-gree.html | title=A Goodbye for Greenhouse | publisher=[[Legal Times]] | author=[[Tony Mauro]] | date=June 12, 2008 | accessdate=2008-06-15 }}</ref> Seven of the nine sitting Justices attended a goodbye party for Greenhouse on June 12, 2008.<ref name=LegalTimes20080612/> She continues to blog for ''The Times'' under the name "Opinionator."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/category/linda-greenhouse/|title=The Opinion Pages - Opinionator - Linda Greenhouse|publisher=New York Times|accessdate=2015-03-28}}</ref> In 2010, Greenhouse and co-author [[Reva Siegel]] put out a book on the development of the abortion debate prior to the 1973 [[Supreme Court]] ruling on the subject: ''Before Roe v. Wade''. This was largely a selection of primary documents, though with some commentary. ===Awards and prizes=== Greenhouse was awarded the [[Pulitzer prize|Pulitzer Prize in Journalism]] ([[Beat Reporting]]) in 1998 "for her consistently illuminating coverage of the United States Supreme Court."<ref name="pulitzer">{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1998/beat-reporting/bio/|title=Pulitzer Prize Winners 1998: Beat Reporting - Biography|publisher=Pulitzer.org|accessdate=2007-08-09 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070930040858/http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1998/beat-reporting/bio/ <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2007-09-30}}</ref> In 2004, she received the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/presspol/goldsmith_awards/career_award.htm | title = Goldsmith Career Award | accessdate = 2007-10-07 | publisher = The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, [[Harvard University]] |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070901104854/http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/presspol/goldsmith_awards/career_award.htm <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2007-09-01}}</ref> and the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer/jrn/1165270069774/page/1175295287807/simplepage.htm | title = John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism | accessdate = 2007-10-07}}</ref> She was a Radcliffe Institute Medal winner in 2006.<ref>{{cite press release | title = Linda Greenhouse ’68 Wins 2006 Radcliffe Institute Medal | publisher = Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, [[Harvard University]] | date = 2006-06-08 | url = http://www.radcliffe.edu/about/news/pr/show_pr.php?pr_name=060608_greenhouse.html | accessdate = 2007-10-07}}</ref> 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'' would not even give me an interview, and neither would the ''[[Boston Globe]]'', because these newspapers had no interest in hiring women."<ref name=radcliffe>{{cite web | url = http://www.radcliffe.edu/alumnae/reunions/4and9/greenhouse.php | title = 2006 Radcliffe Institute Medalist Linda Greenhouse ‘68 | publisher=Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study | accessdate= 2007-08-09}}</ref> ==Criticism== Some critics, notably retired conservative<ref>[http://www.abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3664944&page=1 Clarence Thomas: Becoming a Judge--and perhaps a Justice]</ref> Appeals Court Judge [[Laurence H. Silberman]], have complained of what they call the "[[Greenhouse effect (judicial drift)|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 [[media bias in the United States|liberal media bias]].<ref name="slate">{{cite web|url=http://www.slate.com/id/2123935/|title=The Souter Factor|publisher=''Slate''|accessdate=2007-08-09|date=3 August 2005|author=Dahlia Lithwick}}</ref> She has also been criticized for her failure to maintain the appearance of objectivity.<ref name=folkenflik>{{cite web|url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6146693|author=Folkenflik, David|title=Critics Question Reporter's Airing of Personal Views|publisher=''[[All Things Considered]]''|date=26 September 2006|accessdate=2007-08-09}}</ref> Greenhouse has expressed her personal views as an outspoken advocate for abortion rights and critic of conservative religious values,<ref name=folkenflik/> although the ''New York Times'' public editor [[Daniel Okrent]] said that he has never received a single complaint of bias in Greenhouse's coverage.<ref name=folkenflik/> In 1989, she was rebuked by ''Times'' editors for participating in an abortion-rights rally in Washington. ===Harvard speech, 2006=== She has also faced criticism for a June 2006 speech at [[Harvard University]] criticizing US policies and actions at [[Guantanamo Bay detainment camp|Guantanamo Bay]], [[Abu Ghraib]], and [[Haditha]].<ref name=folkenflik/> In it, Greenhouse said she started crying a few years back at a [[Simon & Garfunkel]] concert because her [[Baby Boomers|generation]] hadn't done a better job of running the country than previous generations:<ref name=radcliffe/> {{quote|And of course my little crying jag occurred before we knew the worst of it, before it was clear the extent to which our government had turned its energy and attention away from upholding the rule of law and toward creating law-free zones at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, Haditha, and other places around the world. And let's not forget the sustained assault on women’s reproductive freedom and the hijacking of public policy by religious fundamentalism. To say that these last years have been dispiriting is an understatement.}} Media critic [[Howard Kurtz]] of the ''[[Washington Post]]'' commented, "Don't those remarks, publicized last week by [[National Public Radio]], go too far for a beat reporter covering such issues at the high court?" Kurtz quoted Greenhouse defending her comments, calling them "statements of fact," not opinion.<ref name=kurtz>{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/01/AR2006100101125_2.html|author=Kurtz, Howard|title=The Right Man For Fox News: Roger Ailes Soldiers On For the Good of the Cause|publisher=[[Washington Post|''The Washington Post'']]|accessdate=2007-08-09|date=2 October 2006}}</ref> [[Daniel Okrent]], the first public editor, or in-house journalism critic, of the ''[[New York Times]]'', said of Greenhouse's remarks: "It's been a basic tenet of journalism ... that the reporter's ideology [has] to be suppressed and submerged, so the reader has absolute confidence that what he or she is reading is not colored by previous views."<ref name=folkenflik/> Greenhouse responded to the criticism saying, "The notion that someone cannot 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."<ref name=kurtz/> She told ''[[National Public Radio]]'': "I said what I said in a public place. Let the chips fall where they may."<ref name=folkenflik/> Ultimately, the Supreme Court issued at least two decisions largely consistent with her view of Constitutional rights in national-security and terrorism cases. ===Journalism conference, 2007=== On August 9, 2007, a television crew from [[C-SPAN]] was forbidden to film a panel discussion at a meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Greenhouse had told organizers that she would not be able answer questions as fully and frankly as she would be if the session were filmed.<ref name="BandC">{{cite news|url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/programming/journalism-educators-bar-c-span-cameras/30493|author=John Eggerton|title=Journalism Educators Bar C-SPAN Cameras|publisher=Broadcasting & Cable|date=10 August 2007|accessdate=2015-01-08}}</ref> The vice president of programming at C-SPAN, Terence Murphy questioned the decision, "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?”<ref>{{cite journal|last=Beckerman |first=Gal|date=10 August 2007|title=The Greenhouse Effect (Updated):Hurricane Linda blows C-SPAN cameras away|journal=Columbia Journalism Review|publisher=Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University|url=http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_greenhouse_effect.php}}</ref> ===Suggestions of conflict of interest, 2008=== [[M. Edward Whelan III|Ed Whelan]], writing in a blog associated with ''[[National Review]]'', suggested that Greenhouse had an obligation to her readers to inform them when reporting on a Supreme Court case that her husband [[Eugene Fidell]] had submitted an [[Amicus curae|amicus]] brief:<ref name="Bench Memos">{{cite web|url=http://bench.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YzFlN2IwMWViOTYzYjQ2NDg0MDIyOTlmYWEyNjIzYWU|author=Ed Whelan|title=Linda Greenhouse’s Ethical In-Fidell-ity |publisher=Bench Memos, National Review Online|date=13 December 2007|accessdate=2009-06-03|authorlink=M. Edward Whelan III}}</ref> He had submitted an amicus brief in the [[Hamdan v. Rumsfeld|''Hamdan'']] case. Fidell also submitted an amicus brief in the [[Boumediene et al v. Bush|''Boumediene'']] case when it was at the D.C. Circuit level before it went to the Supreme Court. The public editor of the ''New York Times'' opined that the paper "should have clued in readers" to Greenhouse's conflict.<ref name="NYTPubEd">{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/opinion/20pubed.html?pagewanted=all|author=Clark Hoyt|title=Public and Private Lives, Intersecting |publisher=''New York Times''|date=20 January 2008}}</ref> [[Emily Bazelon]] and [[Dahlia Lithwick]], writing in ''[[Slate magazine]]'', complained that the ''New York Times'' "had failed to stand up" for Greenhouse and defended Greenhouse from Whelan's criticism.<ref name=Slate20080122>{{cite news | url=http://www.slate.com/id/2182077/ | title=Lay Off Linda: Why doesn't the New York Times stand up for Linda Greenhouse? | publisher=[[Slate magazine]] | author=[[Emily Bazelon]], [[Dahlia Lithwick]] | date= January 22, 2008 | quote = Whelan didn't point to any concrete problem with Greenhouse's handling of these cases. That should be easier to do than with almost any other reporter, given that Greenhouse relies primarily on court filings and oral arguments that are publicly available in their entirety, as Yale law professor Judith Resnik points out to us. Unable to point to any actual bias, Whelan resorts to the petulant claim that the effect of Fidell's involvement in the detainee cases 'would be impossible to separate … from the broader political bias that pervades so much of Greenhouse's reporting. | accessdate=2008-01-25 }} </ref> They quoted [[Yale Law School]] professor Judith Resnik who pointed out that Whelan had been unable to point to any actual sign of bias. {{quotation|Unable to point to any actual bias, Whelan resorts to the petulant claim that the effect of Fidell's involvement in the detainee cases "would be impossible to separate … from the broader political bias that pervades so much of Greenhouse's reporting."}} In a rebuttal, in the ''National Review'' Whelan asserted both that Bazelon and Lithwick had resorted to "baseless ad hominem attacks and to (literally) catty comments about 'right-wing kitty cats.'"<ref name="Bench Memos 2">{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/223469/far-sober/edward-whelan|author=Ed Whelan|title=Far From Sober |publisher=Bench Memos, National Review Online|date=23 January 2008|authorlink=M. Edward Whelan III}}</ref> He then refutes the claim that he did not provide any actual examples of bias, and points readers to a previous article in his series on Greenhouse's alleged conflict of interest.[http://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/51211/response-nyts-public-editor-greenhouse-conflict-mdash-part-1/ed-whelan] ==Bibliography== * {{cite book | author = Linda Greenhouse | title = Becoming Justice Blackmun: [[Harry Blackmun]]'s Supreme Court Journey | publisher = Times Books | location = New York | year = 2005 | isbn = 0-8050-8057-0 | accessdate = 2007-10-06}} *{{cite journal |url=http://www.amphilsoc.org/sites/default/files/480104.pdf |format=pdf |title="Because We Are Final" Judicial Review Two Hundred Years After Marbury |first1=Linda |last1=Greenhouse |publisher=[[Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society]] |volume=148 |number=1 |page=38 |date=March 2004 |accessdate=March 18, 2011}} * {{cite book | isbn = 978-1-60978-663-2 | author = Linda Greenhouse, Reva Segal | title = Before Roe v. Wade: Voices that Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling | url = http://books.google.ca/books?id=v7dmtwAACAAJ&dq=Before+Roe+v.+Wade:+Voices+that+Shaped+the+Abortion+Debate+Before+the+Supreme+Court%27s+Ruling&hl=en&sa=X&ei=e5xST5aGLerq0gHAjrnPDQ&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA | publisher = [[Kaplan Publishing]] | year = 2011 | accessdate = 2012-03-03 }} ==Notes== {{reflist|2}} ==External links== *{{C-SPAN|Linda Greenhouse}} * {{cite news | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/magazine/10BLACKMUN.html | title = The Evolution of a Justice | accessdate = 2007-10-06 | author = Linda Greenhouse | date = 2005-04-10 | work = [[New York Times]] }} * {{cite news | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/06/books/06book.html | title = A Pivotal Justice Less Than Supremely Confident (review of ''Becoming Justice Blackmun'') | accessdate = 2007-10-06 | author = Jeffrey Rosen | date = 2005-05-06 | work = [[New York Times]] }} * {{cite web | url = http://www.radcliffe.edu/alumnae/reunions/4and9/greenhouse.php | title = A Bridge Over Troubled Water | accessdate = 2007-10-06 | author = Linda Greenhouse | year = 2006 | work = 2006 Radcliffe Institute Medalist | publisher = [[Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study]], [[Harvard University]] }} * {{cite news | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/opinion/08pubed.html | title = The Public Editor: Hazarding Personal Opinions in Public Can Be Hazardous for Journalists | accessdate = 2007-10-06 | author = Byron Calame | date = 2006-10-08 | work = [[New York Times]] }} * {{cite news | url = http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15051659/site/newsweek/ | title = Fair and Balanced? A former New York Times ombudsman says Linda Greenhouse’s political comments aren’t necessarily a bad thing. | accessdate = 2007-10-06 | author = Jessica Bennett | date = 2006-09-28 | work = [[Newsweek]] |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070512202555/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15051659/site/newsweek/ <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2007-05-12}} * [http://video2.harvard.edu:8080/ramgen/radvideo/RadDay2006_luncheon.rm Video clip of June 2006 Harvard speech] * {{cite news |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/opinion/20pubed.html?_r=3 |title=Public and Private Lives, Intersecting |accessdate=2008-01-22 |format= |work=[[New York Times]]|date = 2008-01-20 | author = Clark Hoyt}} * {{cite news |url=http://www.slate.com/id/2182077/nav/ais/ |title=Why doesn't the New York Times stand up for Linda Greenhouse? | author = Emily Bazelon and Dahlia Lithwick |accessdate=2008-01-22 |format= |work=[[Slate Magazine]] |date = 2008-01-22}} {{Authority control}} {{Persondata | NAME = Greenhouse, Linda | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = [[Journalist]] | DATE OF BIRTH = 1947-1-9 | PLACE OF BIRTH = [[New York City]] | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Greenhouse, Linda}} [[Category:Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting winners]] [[Category:American women journalists]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Radcliffe College alumni]] [[Category:Yale Law School alumni]] [[Category:People from Connecticut]] [[Category:American pro-choice activists]] [[Category:American women's rights activists]] [[Category:1947 births]] [[Category:Yale Law School faculty]] [[Category:The New York Times writers]] [[Category: American Jews]]'