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The dark side becoming respectable?

18 Sep 2007 16:09 No comments

Starting on a new book this morning, "Damnation Falls" by Edward Wright, I was struck by an early line of this tale of a discredited journalist who returns to his rural Tennessean home town to write a hagiography of his oldest friend, a former governor of the State.

The journalist, Randall Wilkes, is wondering what his former colleagues would think of his turning to "Flackerie". "Writing for hire. Public relations. Image-shaping. All those things held in scorn by real journalists. The kind I used to be."

When I left the newspaper industry in early 2006, I expected to take a fair amount of flack from my soon-to-former colleagues at the FT. More...

Ben Hunt
Director at Corfin Communications

Joined industry in 2006
Member since 18 Sep 2007
Last login 11 months ago

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