In our society, the journalist ranks with the philanthropist as a person who has something extremely valuable to dispense (his currency is the strangely intoxicating substance called publicity), and who is consequently treated with a deference quite out of proportion to his merits as a person. There are very few people in this country who do not regard with rapture the prospect of being written about or being interviewed on a radio or television program.
Janet Malcolm, The Journalist and the Murderer, 1990
Janet Malcolm, The Journalist and the Murderer, 1990
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