Thursday, May 28, 2009

Sotomayor, a Trailblazer and a Dreamer - NYTimes.com

Woman in the News - Sotomayor, a Trailblazer and a Dreamer
NYTimes.com, May 27, 2009

2 comments:

  1. Sotomayor Calls Herself Liberal, Even When the Times Won't. By Clay Waters

    Sheryl Gay Stolberg gushed that Obama Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor "danced a mean salsa" at Princeton, hints she might be some kind of liberal in paragraph 73.
    May 27, 2009 4:05:40 PM

    http://timeswatch.org/articles/2009/20090527141805.aspx

    White House reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg penned the personality-driven "Woman in the News" look at Obama's Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, "A Trailblazer And a Dreamer."

    Sotomayor was described as liberal only once by Stolberg, in indirect and mild fashion, even though the judge was quoted calling herself a liberal in the piece itself.

    [...]

    Not until the 73rd paragraph of the 84-paragraph, 5,000-word piece did Stolberg indirectly hint that Sotomayor just might be ideologically located somewhere vaguely left of center:

    [...]

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  2. The President's Pick. WaPo Editorial
    Kudos, and some questions, for Judge Sonia Sotomayor
    WaPo, Wednesday, May 27, 2009

    http://bipartisanalliance.blogspot.com/2009/05/wapo-kudos-and-some-questions-for-judge.html

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