A review by squirrelfish
Merchants of Truth: The Business of Facts and The Future of News by Jill Abramson

3.0

I thought I'd already written a review of this - I read it awhile ago, then discovered parts were badly sourced/plagiarized and the whole thing was a bit more unreliable narrator than I expect from my non-fiction. I heard from interviews of journalists she describes in the book that she didn't tell them they were in it, and mischaracterized them personally and the context more generally. I've also read about the misogyny and lack of support Abramson was dealing with at the NYTimes. So maybe this book got an unfair shake, but ... eh.