The Journalist and the Murderer (Audiobook)

from arubabookwoman

"The moral ambiguity of journalism lies not in its texts but in the relationships out of which they arise--relationships that are invariably and inescapably lopsided.' In the late 1970's journalist Joe McGinnis sat in with the legal team defending Jeffrey MacDonald who was being tried for the br...

from amerynth

While I found Janet Malcolm's "The Journalist and the Murderer" interesting, I'm not sure I would have if I hadn't worked as a reporter. The book is the examination of a lawsuit brought by a convicted murderer against an author who wrote a book about his case, who basically lied about the tone hi...

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Malcolm gets a little precious and self-important about journalism sometimes, but that's okay, I was reading it for insights into the whole Jeffrey MacDonald situation, not for an analysis of journalistic ethics. The MacDonald case is one of the ones where it really clearly became about something...

from RidgewayGirl

In The Journalist and the Murderer Janet Malcolm examines the relationship between the journalist and his subject, through the example of Joe McGinness and Jeffrey MacDonald, the subject of McGinness's best-selling book, Fatal Vision. McGinness was invited into the inner circle of MacDonald's def...