Just a Journalist

On the Press, Life, and the Spaces Between

Linda Greenhouse

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Harvard University Press
30 October 2017

Autobiography: literary; Diaries, letters & journals; Media studies; Press & journalism; Entertainment & media law

Series: The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in American Studies

In this timely book, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter trains an autobiographical lens on a moment of remarkable transition in American journalism. Just a few years ago, the mainstream press was wrestling with whether labeling waterboarding as torture violated important norms of neutrality and objectivity. Now, major American newspapers regularly call the president of the United States a liar. Clearly, something has changed as the old rules of ""balance"" and ""two sides to every story"" have lost their grip. Is the change for the better? Will it last?

In Just a Journalist, Linda Greenhouse-who for decades covered the U.S. Supreme Court for The New York Times-tackles these questions from the perspective of her own experience. A decade ago, she faced criticism from her own newspaper and much of journalism's leadership for a speech to a college alumnae group in which she criticized the Bush administration for, among other things, seeking to create a legal black hole at Guantánamo Bay-two years after the Supreme Court itself had ruled that the detainees could not be hidden away from the reach of federal judges who might hear their appeals.

One famous newspaper editor expressed his belief that it was unethical for a journalist to vote, because the act of choosing one candidate over another could compromise objectivity. Linda Greenhouse disagrees. Calling herself ""an accidental activist,"" she raises urgent questions about the role journalists can and should play as citizens, even as participants, in the world around them.

By: Linda Greenhouse
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 19
Dimensions: Height: 181mm, Width: 111mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 244g
ISBN: 9780674980334
ISBN 10: 0674980336
Series: The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in American Studies
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 30 October 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Linda Greenhouse is Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who is a contributing op-ed writer for The New York Times.

Reviews for Just a Journalist: On the Press, Life, and the Spaces Between

Greenhouse entwines a personal career history with a larger examination of the challenges her profession faces in an increasingly fractious political landscape.--Kate Tuttle Boston Globe (10/27/2017 12:00:00 AM) Greenhouse shows what significant strides journalism has made in what she calls 'the post-truth age, ' when news stories and headlines now employ language once reserved for opinion pieces or for private conversations among journalists...This brief book of argument and anecdote presents a minefield of challenges that journalism itself is far from unified over how to face. And the ground keeps shifting as the mainstream press does its best to remain a watchdog while resisting the label of adversary.-- Kirkus Reviews (8/15/2017 12:00:00 AM) The veteran New York Times journalist offers a refreshing and fearless challenge to some of journalism's most revered--and ossified-- principles, drawing from her first-hand experience...The final essay of Greenhouse's book is indeed more memoir than argument, and it's a fascinating and delightful read. Especially interesting are her reflections on how the Internet has changed the newsroom...Just a Journalist is a short, precise, top-notch read: illuminating about life as a journalist over the past four decades, but more importantly provocative and intellectually stimulating on some of the core issues facing journalism today. For anyone who cares about the media and its relationship to democracy, her book is a must-read.--Hans Rollman PopMatters (1/9/2018 12:00:00 AM) A delightful, engaging book. I like its personal tone and its feisty, argumentative character.--Michael Schudson, author of The Rise of the Right to Know