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The New Journalism of the 1930s
This is what we would call the New Journalism, so Tom Wolfe or John Dydian, or Fly in the Wall, subjective, richly textured, taboo-breaking They're doing that, and they're doing it in the 1930s. The reporters in my book are not coming from elite, you know, East Coast establishments or Ivy League schools, they're coming from the Midwest and from small towns,. some of them But yeah, they really understand what the American reader needs to know, and they become famous, and then eventually rich because of it Should we make any journalists listening cry, and you can tell me about their salaries no expensive girl? Yeah, well just one little detail
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