Janet Mal­colm has some choice words about journ­al­ism in her exten­ded essay in the 3 May 2010 New Yorker.

Over the years, the social status and the edu­ca­tion level of journ­al­ists has risen and some journ­al­ists write extremely well. But the pro­fes­sion retains its trans­gress­ive­ness. Human frailty con­tin­ues to be the cur­rency in which it trades. Malice remains its anim­at­ing impulse. Con­tinue read­ing →