Amanda Burden Comments

The Amanda Burden feature was really well written. I found the voice of the reporter to be very unbiased. Although she mentioned the good things Amanda Burden did for rezoning the city, Julie Satow also mentioned the criticism Mrs. Burden received for her work. I found Burden to come across very privileged, but yet again, Julie Satow used her words to compare and contrast the many things that make up Amanda M. Burden. The reporter gave much detail about her life prior to her job as the director of the New York City Planning Department, although she was a socialite, she made it clear that Burden was not too polished to get down to work. At certain moments I got the feeling that Burden was very controlled, polished and callous. However, the writer cunningly added in the portion where Amanda Burden goes to Stuyvesant Cove Park. This area was going to be demolished until Mrs. Burden was asked to step in.  This portion of the article shows the compassion in Burden, as calculated as she may have come across to the readers she still has consideration for the people that will be affected by her decisions.