Julie Satow’s profile makes all the journalistic stops in writing a piece that gives the reader the full picture. She has included commentary from people for Ms. Burden’s way of doing things and against it. Arguably, Satow’s seems to sneak in her point of view in the way she structured this article. The reader gets know Ms. Burden through her fashion sense and younger years socializing among society’s elite. This causes a problem because Ms. Burden’s first class status then haunts the story.
At times, her status makes her seem she could care less about the poor in lines such as, “gentrification is merely a pejorative term for necessary growth.” The kicker in this story makes me believe the author’s point of view is that Ms. Burden is out to make the city only for the well to do. The title further solidifies my thoughts on this. This article seems to be more of a pledge against gentrification disguised as a profile about the planning commissioner.
