Reporter's Book Panned After Excerpt
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Today's Times offers a less-than-glowing assessment of Times reporter Jo Becker's book Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality. Reviewer Adam Goodheart (who was a colleague of mine at the Harvard Crimson) writes, scathingly:

Ms. Becker paid too high a price for access. "Forcing the Spring" is riddled with the telltale signs of a reporter becoming too close to her sources. She does herself (and her subjects) no favors with fawning descriptions of Mr. Griffin's inner circle: one has "a face Botticelli might have painted"; another is "the kind of girl who might have once graced a 1950s pinup calendar."

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Reporter's Book Panned After Excerpt
smartertimes.com

Today's Times offers a less-than-glowing assessment of Times reporter Jo Becker's book Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality. Reviewer Adam Goodheart (who was a colleague of mine at the Harvard Crimson) writes, scathingly:

Ms. Becker paid too high a price for access. "Forcing the Spring" is riddled with the telltale signs of a reporter becoming too close to her sources. She does herself (and her subjects) no favors with fawning descriptions of Mr. Griffin's inner circle: one has "a face Botticelli might have painted"; another is "the kind of girl who might have once graced a 1950s pinup calendar."

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