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Janet Malcolm delves into the psychopathology of journalism utilizing a weird and unprecedented lawsuit as her larger-than-life example: the lawsuit of Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, against Joe McGinniss, the author of Fatal Eye-sight. Analyzing the always uneasy, sometimes tragic relationship that prevails between journalist and subject matter, Malcolm locates that neither journalist nor subject matter can steer clear of the moral impasse that is built into the journalistic situation. This audiobook is a work of journalism as well as an essay on journalism: It simultaneously exemplifies and dissects its subject matter. In her interviews with the best and subsidiary personas in the MacDonald-McGinniss case, Malcolm is definitely aware of herself as a player in a game that she cannot lose. The journalist-subject face has always stressed journalists, but never before has it been viewed so unflinchingly therefore ruefully. Hovering within the narrative is the MacDonald murder case itself. The Journalist and the Murderer derives from and demonstrates lots of the dominant intellectual concerns of our own time, and it'll have a particular appeal for those who cherish the unusual, the off-center, and the unsolved.
