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Janet Malcolm: American New Yorker journalist, author of The Journalist and the Murderer, 1934 to 2021.

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.

Janet Malcolm · The source reads: “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. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.” · The Journalist and the Murderer (1990), pt. I, opening line

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