> Gladwell might be a compelling - albeit extremely formulaic - writer, but how does he fare as a journalist? In fairness, we probably shouldn't judge him as a

> Gladwell might be a compelling - albeit extremely formulaic - writer, but how does he fare as a journalist? In fairness, we probably shouldn't judge him as a journalist. He's a storyteller and a popularizer instead: someone who reads scholarly works and whips them into a shape that larger audiences can and will read. Case in point: in 1985, Timothy Wilson published an amazing article called "Strangers to Ourselves". Years later, he turned it into a book (of the same title). But most people haven't heard of Wilson or that book, certainly nowhere near as many people as have heard of or read Malcolm Gladwell's Blink. By Gladwell's own admission, most of the ideas in Blink start from Wilson's work.[1] [1] http://www.gladwell.com/tippingpoint/tp_reading.html http://www.gladwell.com/tippingpoint/tp_reading.html