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13: The Journalist and the Analyst: On Janet Malcolm feat. Sam Adler-Bell

Ordinary Unhappiness

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The Hypocrisy of Malcolm Gladwell

CNN's John Sutter says the New Yorker writer is accusing herself of hypocrisy. He argues that she analogizes journalists and their subjects to analysts, a profession motivated by cruelty. "She obviously learned something about how to behave in her interviewing mode from her understanding of how analysts operate," writes Sutter.

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