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The New Republic / Ryu Spaeth / Nov 30, 2020
“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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