I prefer the longer but more detailed writeup that LARB published: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-ashtray-has-landed-the-case-of-morris-v-kuhn/# https:

I prefer the longer but more detailed writeup that LARB published: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-ashtray-has-landed-the-case-of-morris-v-kuhn/# https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-ashtray-has-landed-t...! The Janet Malcolm dispute is instructive in this regard. Malcolm's book on the MacDonald case is a classic, assigned reading for many aspiring journalists; her book is on the difficulties of the relationship between journalist and subject, and the impossibility of perfect objectivity. Morris's documentaries, sometimes downright hamfisted in their edits (he is cruel to, for example, his subjects in Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control), could be taken as an opposite extreme. Objectivity is hardly even intended.