
The Journalist and the Murderer
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Narrated by:
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Marguerite Gavin
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By:
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Janet Malcolm
Janet Malcolm delves into the psychopathology of journalism using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit as her larger-than-life example: the lawsuit of Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, against Joe McGinniss, the author of Fatal Vision. Examining the always uneasy, sometimes tragic relationship that exists between journalist and subject, Malcolm finds that neither journalist nor subject can avoid the moral impasse that is built into the journalistic situation.
This audiobook is a work of journalism as well as an essay on journalism: It at once exemplifies and dissects its subject. In her interviews with the leading and subsidiary characters in the MacDonald-McGinniss case, Malcolm is always aware of herself as a player in a game that she cannot lose. The journalist-subject encounter has always troubled journalists, but never before has it been looked at so unflinchingly and so ruefully. Hovering over the narrative is the MacDonald murder case itself. The Journalist and the Murderer derives from and reflects many of the dominant intellectual concerns of our time, and it will have a particular appeal for those who cherish the odd, the off-center, and the unsolved.
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Story about a story
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Original point of view and new material to me
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One of the best narrations I have ever heard.
Wow.
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A rare book
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A Journalistic Classic
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Good Reporting & Bad Philosophic Discussion
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Brilliant
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This book is on another level: Malcolm is fearlessly honest about her own weaknesses, and seems to never "pretend" any particular emotion about the people in this book, even if it makes her appear far away or overly neutral.
To me, it seems Malcolm covers many topics in this book - fiction vs. journalism, the nature of the relationship between journalist and subject, the responsibility of non fiction writers; and of course, the stories themselves - and she somehow intertwines all of these topics together.
Amazing.
Incredibly Insightful
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What was the point ?
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Self-aggrandizing and boring
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