Errol Morris on Interviewer's Role - The Janet Malcolm Paradox

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Uploaded by on Aug 14, 2008

does he break his subjects like an interrogator or does he induce them into confession like a priest?

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  • what is the point of this?

  • In The Journalist and the Murderer (originally published almost in its entirety in the New Yorker), Malcolm explores the relationship between the journalist and the subject. Declaring that this relationship is always rife with seduction and betrayal.

    Morris disdains this role. He's not trying to be a Tim Russert with one of those 'gotcha moments.

    I worked for Sydney Schanberg at the Times briefly. One of the rules he taught me was in the same vein as what Malcolm spoke about.

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  • as a interviewee he's kinda boring... but I think he's saying that essentially journalists place a con game, a confessor and then turn around and sell them out!

  • why the janet malcolm parodox

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