Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Wed, Sep 05 2007
Is it all right for a journalist to be psychic instead of getting real statements?
Whatever the outcome of the battle over journalist Rita Cosby's new book on Howard Stern and Larry Birkhead, it's disturbing to me that she would do the work of a journalist to complete her book, not speak to Larry Birkhead personally, and then toss off the comment, "We also knew what Birkhead would say..."
It seems to me that it's a journalist's job to speak to the parties involved anyway and get their statements, instead of assuming that one knows what they will say. Maybe Ms. Cosby didn't mean to sound unprofessional in her comment, but such a remark comes across very badly in the context of a work being marketed as non-fiction.
posted at: 06:43 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
Whatever the outcome of the battle over journalist Rita Cosby's new book on Howard Stern and Larry Birkhead, it's disturbing to me that she would do the work of a journalist to complete her book, not speak to Larry Birkhead personally, and then toss off the comment, "We also knew what Birkhead would say..."
It seems to me that it's a journalist's job to speak to the parties involved anyway and get their statements, instead of assuming that one knows what they will say. Maybe Ms. Cosby didn't mean to sound unprofessional in her comment, but such a remark comes across very badly in the context of a work being marketed as non-fiction.
posted at: 06:43 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
