{"id":116675,"date":"2021-06-17T17:09:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T17:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=116675"},"modified":"2021-06-17T17:09:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T17:09:23","slug":"janet-malcolm-provocative-journalist-with-a-piercing-eye-dies-at-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/janet-malcolm-provocative-journalist-with-a-piercing-eye-dies-at-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Janet Malcolm, Provocative Journalist With a Piercing Eye, Dies at 86"},"content":{"rendered":"
Her subjects ranged widely, but she took special aim at journalism itself, writing that every journalist \u201cknows that what he does is morally indefensible.\u201d<\/p>\n
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By <\/span>Katharine Q. Seelye<\/span><\/p>\n Janet Malcolm, a longtime writer for The New Yorker who was known for her piercing judgments, her novel-like nonfiction and a provocative moral certainty that cast a cold eye on journalism and its practitioners, died on Wednesday in a hospital in Manhattan. She was 86.<\/p>\n