Let me tell you what i mean review7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() This could be read as a slanted manifesto for Didion’s own style. Didion praises instead magazines that cultivate a personal voice, and which aim to impart character and atmosphere rather than straightforward information: “They assume that the reader is a friend, that he is disturbed about something, and that he will understand if they talk to him straight this assumption of a shared language and a common ethic lends their reports a considerable cogency of style.” Often, she concludes, the real story is “the story not in the newspaper”. ![]() Too often, she argues, their reporting style rests on “a quite factitious ‘ objectivity’”, which “lends the entire venture a mendacity” by failing to make explicit the writer’s own particular set of influences and biases. I n the first essay of this new volume of previously uncollected pieces, Joan Didion makes a case against newspapers. ![]()
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