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Now and forever: who should enter the journalistic pantheon?(Book Review)

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From: Columbia Journalism Review
Date: 20030701
Author:Stephens, Mitchell

THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF JOURNALISM EDITED BY JON E. LEWIS CARROLL & GRAF 546 PP. $12.95

Journalism--unlike literature, theater, art, music, film, or situation comedy--has never had much of a canon, a reasonably well-accepted collection of great works. This is lamentable. It leaves us, as we read the latest dispatch from Washington or a war zone, without models that might help us understand what such a dispatch might be. It allows us to mistake an interesting feature in the Times this week or some particularly persuasive piece of reporting in the current New Yorker for the best ...

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