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Greenhouse's "conflict," again and again and again

By Mark Obbie

Ed Whelan at Bench Memos answers Clark Hoyt, the New York Times public editor who wrote on Sunday about Whelan's conflict-of-interest accusations against Linda Greenhouse. The answer is in three parts (so far), here, here, and here. Its third part conveniently indexes Whelan's dozen or so past posts on -- or, I should say, against -- Greenhouse's Supreme Court coverage. Whelan's latest postings burn with righteous indignation, but shed no new light on his mildly interesting but fundamentally trivial concern. Whelan is prosecuting this as if a public official had violated an explicit regulation or statute. If he wants to write about supposed political bias in legal reporting, he should work harder to prove, with evidence, actual mistakes and bias in the substance of news stories that Greenhouse or others feed to the public. Otherwise, all we have here is a bunch of screeching about a perceived (and vastly overblown) procedural matter. Yawn.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on January 22, 2008 (boomark / email).