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The Journalist and the Murderer
''The Journalist and the Murderer'' is a study by Janet Malcolm about the ethics of journalism, published by Alfred A. Knopf/Random House in 1990. It is an examination of the professional choices that shape a work of non-fiction, as well as a rumination on the morality that underpins the journalistic enterprise. The journalist in question is Joe McGinniss; the murderer is the former Special Forces captain Dr. Jeffrey R. MacDonald, who became the subject of McGinniss' 1983 book ''Fatal Vision''.
When Malcolm's work first appeared in March 1989, as a two-part serialization in ''The New Yorker'' magazine, it caused a sensation, becoming the occasion for wide-ranging debate within the news industry.〔Scardino, Albert. "(Ethic, Reporters and The New Yorker )". ''The New York Times''. March 21, 1989.〕 This heavy criticism continued when published in book form a year later. But ''The Journalist and the Murderer'' is now regarded as a "seminal" work, and its "once controversial theory became received wisdom."〔McCollam, Douglas. "You Have The Right to Remain Silent". ''Columbia Journalism Review''. January–February 2003.〕 It ranks 97th on the Modern Library's list of the 100 best non-fiction works of the 20th century.
==Themes==
Malcolm's thesis, and the most widely quoted passage from ''The Journalist and the Murderer'', is its opening paragraph: "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." She continues:〔Malcolm, Janet. ''The Journalist and the Murder''. New York: Knopf. 1990. p. 1.〕
:He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse. Like the credulous widow who wakes up one day to find the charming young man and all her savings gone, so the consenting subject of a piece of nonfiction learns—when the article or book appears—''his'' hard lesson. Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and "the public's right to know"; the least talented talk about Art; the seemliest murmur about earning a living.
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