Hey, Linda Greenhouse: Come clean
As noted yesterday, unhinged lefties who read the New York Times are ready to lynch Bill Kristol. But they and the paper’s ombudsman have nothing to say–nada–about the clear conflict of interests of liberal Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse.
The name should ring a bell. In 1989, a year in which she wrote two dozen stories about abortion, Greenhouse marched in an abortion-rights rally in Washington. She wasn’t covering it. She was a participant–despite
the paper’s ethics policy banning political activism by its journalists. In June 2006, she delivered a left-wing diatribe at Harvard ripping the Bush administration and conservatives, lamenting that “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.”
And now? Now, NRO’s Ed Whelan has uncovered Greenhouse’s unethical failure to disclose that her lawyer husband, Eugene Fidell, has been filing amicus briefs for Gitmo detainees. In other words, he has been actively participating in the same cases that Greenhouse was reporting on–and neither she nor the paper informed readers.
Whelan notified NYT ombudsman Clark Hoyt, who questioned Greenhouse. Greenhouse basically blew Hoyt off. Hoyt then blew Whelan off by aping Greenhouse’s bogus hair-splitting over whether her husband “represented” detainees and when. Paul Mirengoff at Power Line rightly notes that “Greenhouse’s ‘denial’ is a pathetic evasion.”
Greenhouse has gotten away with her “ethics for thee, but not for me” routine for decades. Will she get away with it again?
Contact info for the NYT ombudsman:
* E-mail: public@nytimes.com
* Phone: (212) 556-7652
* Address: Public Editor
The New York Times
620 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10018
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After a while, the double standard becomes a little tiresome, doesn’t it? It almost becomes a cliche to say that I will say/do what I want, but you don’t have the same privilege.
It’s too much of a bother to work up a case of NYTDS - the fishwrap has already proven just how irrelevant it really is.
What would REALLY be newsworthy is if the Times and its reporters actually reported the truth for a change!
Isn’t that a little redundant?
Gives new meaning to the term “Greenhouse Gases” ew ew that smell the smell that surrounds you…la la la….
The elite are different from you and me. Their bold vision and absolute moral authority give them the right to do or say anything that will advance the cause. And what cause is that, you ask? Why, secular progressive liberalism, of course!
Rules? They don’t need no stinkin’ rules! Rules are for the little people to obey.
sarc/off!
they just got my email!
She forgot sanctuary cities like Los Angeles and New York…..oh wait
Michelle, That is not the only example of Linda Greenhouse’s liberal reporting. Last summer, Chief Justice Roberts suddenly fainted while on summer vacation. The severity of his illness was unknown. But Linda Greenhouse saw some farreaching consequences in Chief Justice Roberts’ sudden illness. She wrote a long article devoted to her theme that Roberts was a golden boy, a child of privilege to whom everything came easy. Greenhouse wrote that now, having suffered an illness and realizing that he was vulnerable, Roberts faced a test. Would he, asked Greenhouse, learn from his illness and vulnerability and become a liberal? According to Linda Greenhouse, if Chief Justice Roberts learned the correct lessons from his sudden glimpse of mortality, he would become a liberal jurist and side with the liberal justices whose viewpoints Linda Greenhouse shares. If Chief Justice Roberts didn’t learn, he would return to being just the “bloodless jurist” that Ms. Greenhouse knows him to be.
My guess is that Linda Greenhouse saw the liberal movie “Dave” many years ago and decided to insert Chief Justice Roberts into the plot line.
She failed to include sanctuary cities like Los Angeles and New York. She should have added our border in there as well. I would then agree with her about our govt not “upholding the rule of law”
Or maybe she just meant the rules of law she happens to agree with? ya think?
I almost wish I read that rag,just so I could cancel it.No wonder the MSM wants to shut down talk radio and the bloggers.It is also no wonder that the MSM can’t hold onto readers and viewers.In the age of computers,it is far to easy for the general public to it’s own fact-checking.The MSM is still in business only because of people who either don’t want to know the truth or have a vested interest in perpetuating the lies.
sorry, two posts. Its early
We all know that the Treason Times is nothing more than a left wing extremist propaganda rag. It’s not stretching the point to suggest the editors should in prison for treason, sedition, or espionage against the United States. The paper is clearly an internal enemy of this country.
My question is why “stories/articles” from the bird cage liner are referenced so often in other legitimate forms of journalism including sports? Maybe if they are just ignored in the world of information then the impact of their attempt to meddle in the affairs of this country would be minimized. Beyond that hopefully the financial trashing they are experiencing will take its toll.
Sometimes, just for giggles, I like to go to finance -dot- yahoo -dot- com, just to look at the NYT graph. It always puts a smile on my face!
So THAT’s what they mean by Greenhouse emissions are bad for the planet!!
Now I understand what Al is talking about.
/sarc
“Greenhouse has gotten away with her “ethics for thee, but not for me” routine for decades. Will she get away with it again?”
Probably.
But you did a very nice job of reporting this, once again, MM. Thanks for doing what you do.
Right on AJ, that’s exactly what I thought of when I read this post. Kinda relates to Obama-Hillary race for the race hustlers, too.
Give it a listen, and you will hear some great guitar pickin’ and southern soul. Then you will have no choice but to support Fred Thompson for President.
#12 On January 15th, 2008 at 9:59 am, Lan Astaslem said:
“Sometimes, just for giggles, I like to go to finance -dot- yahoo -dot- com, just to look at the NYT graph. It always puts a smile on my face!”
Thanks for the tip.
But, in ‘91, the price had been down to ~7.
From that, it ultimately rose to ~50 till Jan ‘04.
(Don’t know if there have been any
splits or reverse splits during this time.)
Anyway, if there is cosmic justice, the NYT’s stock price drop will be terminal this time.
Man!
Is the wrong thread, or what?
Not enough coffee….
Nope.
Correct thread, after all.
Sorry, folks.
Thanks Michelle…it wasn’t long ago that there was no conservative blogs, talk radio and TV. The unhinged left continually exposes themselves and their credibility is steadily dwindling. The country has been sooooooo slow in waking up, but we’re eventually going to get there and the left will have the political standing of Ralph Nader.
How hard is it to disclose that affilition? Contrast Greenhouse’s attitude toward ethics with Nina Easton’s. Every time Nina appears on FNC to discuss the presidential race, she discloses that her husband is an advisor to the Romney campaign.
Maybe Nina just makes ethical behavior look easy.
Michelle,
You really don’t expect the NYT ombudsman to do anything about Greenhouse’s duplicity, when the editorial practice of the rag involves duplicity, lies, slander, and acidic anti-American bias on a daily basis?
700 folks. C’mon. We can top that.
Cancelled my NYTimes subscription a long time ago, but now when they send me “please come back” mailers, I copy a story like the Greenhouse BS and enclose it with a “no thank you” note. It probably never makes it to the editors but I feel better.
The more I learn about the lack of ethical behavior by people in this industry that call themselves journalist I wonder if ethics are taught in journalism classes anymore. I now know thanks to Michelle and the rest of the “Army of Davids” in the new media the MSM has jenisoned any journalistic integrity or ethics in their class warfare against the conservative principles that ensured their right to print their lies thanks to the 1st Amendment. As a consumer I have the right to not buy their product and ignore them while taking great pleasure in watching their continuing decent into oblivion.
#23 On January 15th, 2008 at 10:41 am, capitano said:
“Cancelled my NYTimes subscription a long time ago, but now when they send me “please come back” mailers, I copy a story like the Greenhouse BS and enclose it with a “no thank you” note. It probably never makes it to the editors but I feel better.”
The same idea and plan I got the other day!
What’s the point of having a “Public Editor” if he sticks up for the publication’s insiders?
If any conservative had such a clear conflict of interest, the Times wouldn’t hesitate to report negatively on it.
Just a brief rebuttal the whack-job Greenhouse’s staunch abortionist bent:
Dr. Brian Clowes, HLI researcher (www.hli.org), has examined the data from the 2007 Statistical Abstract of the United States Census and extrapolated the numbers of the various professions and categories of Americans who have been eliminated in the wake of nearly 49 million legalized abortions, one third of all Americans conceived since 1973. The following numbers are based on the actual government estimates of the professions represented in America. So then, who have we lost to abortion?
2 US Presidents
7 Supreme Court Justices
102 US Senators and 589 Congressmen
8,123 Federal, district and local court judges
31 Nobel Prize laureates
328 Olympic medalists including 123 Gold medalists
6,092 professional athletes
134,841 physicians and surgeons
392,500 registered nurses
70,669 priests, ministers, rabbis and imams including
6,852 priests and 11,010 nuns (vocations “shortage”?)
1,102,443 teachers (K-12)
553,821 truck drivers
224,518 maids and housekeepers
336,939 janitors
134,028 farmers and ranchers
109,984 police officers and sheriff’s deputies
39,477 firefighters
17,221 barbers, and
24,450,000…women (the gender of roughly half of all children aborted).
To the eugenicists it’s just a minor medical procedure.
Gee, I think Hilter had a similar rationalization.
Wouldn’t it just be easier for the ombudsman to just maintain a (very) small box on page 146 bottom left that lists which NYT reporters actually are ethical?
I had already emailed the NYT but now that I have her email address, I will email her directly. Her address is:
ligree@nytimes.com
P.S. The Times will now give you the email addresses of staff and departments if you ask for it. I did!
Ethics and the NY Times are strangers. No surprise. The Times doesn’t practice journalism any more. They are propagandists.
Wow, I’ve seen Eugene Fidell everywhere–60 Minutes, PBS, etc.–over the last 6 years, representing Gitmo detainees. Had no idea he was married to Greenhouse. Total conflict of interest.
If you read Linda Greenberg’s articles on the US Supreme Court, you will see that she repeatedly refers to Scalia and Thomas as “conservative justices” and often mentions that they were Republican appointees. Check out how many times she refers to John Paul Stevens as a “liberal justice” or Steven Breyer as “a liberal justice”. It will never happen. In her mind, Stevens and Breyer are not liberals. They are just taking the only positions that are sound and logical. She really belives that.
meatpiesandtatters, with your permission I would like to reprint your post on my blog which I use to vent and save info for later. Please comment here and I will check later. Thank you for the stats…that is one of the reasons I love the Internet…you can find out anything you want. And, speaking of that, are you all signed up with OpenCongress.org? I plan to use it frequently from this day forward.
Oh, AJ. Don’t associate Lynyrd Skynyrd with the likes of Greenhouse and the NYT.
Pluck this turkey.
Like the old Pravda in the Soviet Union, the NYT is a pure socialist tool. Anyone that truly believes that there is objective reporting coming from that paper needs to see a doctor.
Thanks, Sharonlite. I checked it out and will find it useful. It is saved in my blogs.
I guess methane is a greenhouse gas too.
Doesn’t methane come from bulls? Specifically bull excrement? The parallel is absolutely striking!
PREJUDICE: against; harsh, angry
BIAS: In favor of: warm, fuzzy.
Change the discourse in America. The mainstream media is not so much biased prejudiced. Does the word “prejudice” conjure associations with racism and inhumane treatment? Good. It should.
PREJUDICED, NOT BIASED.
And I think we’d all be surprised at how many television news types hang out with the people they cover and do not disclose it. Right Bill O’? Going to dinner with Rev Al?
Can anyone explain, please, why so many people with a Jewish heritage, are coming to the defense of the barbarians who want them dead? Is it about, money? Notoriety? Mis-placed compassion? I just don’t get it…These are the people that jihadists would kill in a heartbeat, if given the chance.
right_on, this is precisely the question I have posed to several Jewish people, in particular, a screen writer in Hollywood and he has no answer except to say that during WWII they also behaved that way. I can’t figure it. Can anyone?
Why do libtards like Greenhouse seem to all look the same?
Bob Jones: It’s because that for so many years they’ve been eating nothing but vegetables and as we know, they are heavy believers in evolution, they have developed four stomachs. The large jaw holds the heavy molars to chew their cud. The end results are the heavy doses of methane gas.
If you look at her photo, it almost looks like she is getting ready to moo.
In fundrace.com there is a Eugene Fidell from Maryland who is listed as an attorney who in 2004 donated $2000.00 to both Dean and Kerry and $2000.00 also to Joe Lieberman. So it definitely a Democrat household. I did not see any donations to GOPAC!!
So how is the NYT’s coupon selection in the Sunday paper? Worth the investment?
right_on said:
This question is covered every now and then in the Jewish World Review (that has an awesome columnist archive section). The one thing I read way back when is that American Jews are more fearful of the potential pogrom from mildly anti-semitic right-wing fundies next door than from blood-soaked jihadis 5,000 miles away. Or something like that. Remember that for most of the past 2,000 years, the most common Jewish experience that shaped the race memory of the Jews that immigrated to America has been torture and death at the hands of other white people.
Why does the NYT seem heck bent for leather to sink its own ship? Not that I mind, I just find it so puzzling.
I mean, doesn’t Hoyt care in the least that his own acquiescence to Greenhouse’s apparent ability to cherry-pick her full-disclosure obligations contributes mightily to the destruction of what remains of the Times’ credibility as a news source? (I won’t call them a newspaper because they surrendered that mantle during the early days of Reagan’s first term.)
Doesn’t he care that his actions may now call into question the veracity of every Times’ article contained in college and university databases across the nation? That many of these institutions will simply opt to break their intellectual property/copyright agreements with the Times, rather than risk providing their students and faculties with dubious, unreliable source material? Doesn’t he know that the Times can ill afford such a financial loss, given their already declining bottom-line?
I guess not.
Communists, liberals and liars.
Good read goin on right now that explains the roots of a phony like “Greenhouse” (is this really her last name?).
Book is called LIBERAL FASCISM by Jonah Goldberg.
These ass clowns on the Left I am no longer going to call them Moon Loons: they are fascist communists.
Now we have (for the umpteenth time) confirmation of the real “Faux News!”
It’s not just the “reporters” but also the “editors.”
At his new job at the NYPravda, Bill Kristol is going to feel the same way I felt at UMASS Amherst.