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...lack of outrage among those likely to be most affected stems in part from the tangled nature of the incident that prompted the trouble. In December 1983 the New Yorker ran a two-part profile by Malcolm of Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, a psychoanalyst who had lost his job as projects director of the Sigmund Freud Archives in New York City. Published the next year by Knopf as In the Freud Archives, Malcolm's report apparently allowed Masson to destroy himself with his own words: his self-description as "an intellectual gigolo," his plan to transform Anna Freud's house, after...
...Federal Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski (dissenting), Masson v. New Yorker Magazine...
...American journalism has brought Masson v. New Yorker Magazine, Inc., on itself by worshiping at the shrine of the quote. The case is now before the Supreme Court. Most journalists would probably agree with Judge Kozinski of the lower court that an article without quotes just doesn't hack...
...Jeffrey Masson, a psychiatrist, was the subject of a New Yorker profile by Janet Malcolm. Masson claims that Malcolm libeled him by putting in his mouth words he never said, such as "intellectual gigolo" to describe himself. Malcolm denies making up quotes but also claims a constitutional right...
Maybe what American journalism needs is not just better quotes but fewer quotes. The Masson case is a reminder that the accuracy and wisdom of a piece of journalism inevitably depends on "the author's own observations and conclusions," as Judge Kozinski puts it. It is often more efficient, not to say more honest, to express these directly. Quotes can become a crutch. Or rather, "Quotes can become a crutch," says one observer of the journalistic scene...