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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 lastIn 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 Guantnamo 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.



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Linda Greenhouse

Linda Greenhouse was the New York Times Supreme Court correspondent for nearly 30 years, and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for her coverage of the Court. She now teaches at Yale Law School and writes a bi-weekly op-ed column on law for the New York Times as a contributing opinion writer.



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