We keep an eye out for the most interesting stories about Labby subjects: digital media, startups, the web, journalism, strategy, and more. Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately.
“I can’t think of another journalist who so gleefully embodies Janet Malcolm’s old saw, from The Journalist and the Murderer: ‘Every journalist who is not too stupid or 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.'” —
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Ben Smith,
Janet Malcolm,
moral indefensibility