Oh how true is is:
“Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.” — Janet Malcolm, American journalist and author (b. 1934), in The Journalist and the Murderer
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hey--we read her book The Crime of Sheila McGough in my Narrative Structures class last semester! I actually hated it--thought she was condescending to the reader while still managing to bore me to death--but I like this quote.
Oh, and I REALLY owe you an email. arrgh! My 'rents are in town this weekend, so I'm planning on getting all post-exam/journal competition/school year-caught-up as soon as they leave. :D
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