JOURNALIST AND THE MURDERER, T
作者： Janet Malcolm 著
出版社：Random House US 1990-10-1
简介： In two previous books, Janet Malcolm explored the hidden sidesof, respectively, institutional psychoanalysis and Freudianbiography. In this book, she examines the psychopathology ofjournalism. Using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit as herlarger-than-life example -- the lawsuit of Jeffrey MacDonald, aconvicted murderer, against Joe McGinniss, the author of FatalVision, a book about the crime -- she delves into the alwaysuneasy, sometimes tragic relationship that exists betweenjournalist and subject. In Malcolm's view, neither journalist norsubject can avoid the moral impasse that is built into thejournalistic situation. When the text first appeared, as a two-partarticle in The New Yorker, its thesis seemed so radical and itsirony so pitiless that journalists across the country reacted as ifstung.
