{"id":65474,"date":"2017-11-17T18:30:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T23:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65474"},"modified":"2017-11-17T18:31:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T23:31:43","slug":"wash-post-erik-wemple-nyts-former-supreme-court-reporter-linda-greenhouse-boasts-of-monthly-planned-parenthood-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65474","title":{"rendered":"(Wash Post) Erik Wemple&#8211;NYT\u2019s (former Supreme Court Reporter) Linda Greenhouse boasts of monthly Planned Parenthood donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Greenhouse has nothing to hide with respect to her charitable activities. Writing in her new book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0674980336\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=washpost-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=0674980336&amp;linkId=4b44ad0b76fa624f0ae3b43c699e58e4\">Just a Journalist: On the Press, Life and the Spaces Between<\/a>,\u201d the former New York Times reporter notes that she wasn\u2019t content to allow Planned Parenthood to deduct a monthly contribution from her bank account. \u201cIt was important to me to write a check every month and sign my name,\u201d writes Greenhouse, who is now a contributing op-ed writer for the same paper. \u201cIt was the signature of a citizen. The stories that appeared under my byline, on abortion and all other subjects, were the work of a journalist. If anyone ever thought those failed to measure up to professional standards, they never told me or anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s one heck of an internal firewall. Skeptics of Greenhouse\u2019s remarkable ethical divisibility are already speaking up. \u201cRather than meld her identities, she dons or sheds them whenever convenient,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/book-party\/wp\/2017\/10\/27\/blurring-the-line-between-citizen-and-journalist-at-the-new-york-times\/?utm_term=.7e57bbf9b064\">writes Washington Post book critic Carlos Lozada<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times itself preaches caution when making donations. \u201cStaff members should think carefully about their own contributions to various causes, bearing in mind the need for neutrality on divisive issues,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/NYT_Ethical_Journalism_0904-1.pdf\">notes a September 2004 New York Times ethics guide<\/a>. \u201cThose in doubt about contributions should consult their supervisors and the standards editor or the deputy editorial page editor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/erik-wemple\/wp\/2017\/10\/27\/nyts-linda-greenhouse-boasts-of-monthly-planned-parenthood-donations\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Greenhouse has nothing to hide with respect to her charitable activities. Writing in her new book \u201cJust a Journalist: On the Press, Life and the Spaces Between,\u201d the former New York Times reporter notes that she wasn\u2019t content to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65474\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,114,96,89,151,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-media","category-politics-in-general","category-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65476,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65474\/revisions\/65476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}