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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

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