Slog - Comments on Moral Masochism http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/moral_masochism The other day, a friend gave me a copy of The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcom which, I'm ashamed to admit, I hadn't read before. "Read the first sentence," he said, "and tell me you don't want to keep reading." The first sentence goes like this: Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. It gave me a warm, wistful feeling, the exact same feeling I got this first time I read this passage in Didion's introduction to Slouching Towards... Copyright 2008 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:02:00 -0800 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:31:00 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by ecce homo Janet Malcolm would HATE Savage.

That said, Didion was a child molester who spent years in Sri Lanka just to scratch the itch. The guy is an asshole. I am eagerly awaiting Savage to rush out and post an in depth, word for word, transcript of Didion's tales of perversion with small children. It makes for compelling reading.

]]> ecce homo http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/moral_masochism#c762571 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/moral_masochism#c762571 Arts Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:53:32 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe I am a journalist, I write to you to show you, I am an incurable, and nothin' else behaves like meeeee

GBV, baby.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/moral_masochism#c762598 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/moral_masochism#c762598 Arts Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:32:07 -0800 Comment by Nat Joan Didion is a woman, you moron.

]]> Nat http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/moral_masochism#c762625 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/moral_masochism#c762625 Arts Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:26:32 -0800 Comment by ecce homo Nat:

Liar, go back to journalism school.

]]> ecce homo http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/moral_masochism#c762630 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/moral_masochism#c762630 Arts Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:41:38 -0800 Comment by RedGrapes @4 Nat is correct, JOAN Didion is a woman. She just wrote a book about HER husband dying.

]]> RedGrapes http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/moral_masochism#c762659 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/moral_masochism#c762659 Arts Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:06:48 -0800 Comment by citrus Yes, Nat is definately correct, and her newest book, The Year of Magical Thinking was wonderful.

just curious... where did you come up with that bullshit about child molestation? or was it a joke?

]]> citrus http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/moral_masochism#c762690 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/moral_masochism#c762690 Arts Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:56:15 -0800 Comment by ecce homo Didion is indeed a man. Just cause she presents himself as a woman, doesn't mean dick.

Readers of the Stranger and SLOG should have a more enlightened view of the vaguries of "Gender".

]]> ecce homo http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/moral_masochism#c762702 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/moral_masochism#c762702 Arts Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:19:00 -0800 Comment by JessB Ecce: You're an idiot.

]]> JessB http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/moral_masochism#c762747 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/moral_masochism#c762747 Arts Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:44:53 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi Janet Malcolm would hate Savage? You do realize that this post was written by Brendan Kiley, right? Or are you really that stupid?

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/moral_masochism#c762946 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/moral_masochism#c762946 Arts Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:31:00 -0800