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The Journalist and the Murderer
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1990
- Pages
- Pages 180
A writer befriends a doctor convicted of killing his family, promises a sympathetic book and delivers a damning one; the doctor sues, and the case becomes an argument that every journalist is a confidence man who wins trust to betray it.
He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.
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