March 8, 2017 (Fault Lines) — While working for the New York Times as the paper’s Supreme Court correspondent, Linda Greenhouse won the Pulitzer Prize and embarrassed the paper along the way as well. After leaving the paper, she ended up at Yale law school despite the fact that she isn’t a lawyer. As I shall explain in more detail, this move was, in a way, the perfect “golden parachute” for both Greenhouse and the Times.
In 2006, Greenhouse got her ass chewed by the Times public editor for fulminations about the failure of her generation (and mine) to