Errol Morris on Interviewer's Role - The Janet Malcolm Paradox
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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!
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why the janet malcolm parodox
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what is the point of this?
Lavxtee 2 years ago
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.
DukeofConDao 2 years ago