Journalist defends 20-year-old interview after Malcolm Gladwell's public attack
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Carter Harris
Summary
The article is a first-person defense by a journalist who was publicly attacked by Malcolm Gladwell for an interview conducted over 20 years ago. Gladwell called the journalist a "jerk" and accused him of "malpractice" and career destruction based on an interview with a music producer who later regretted it. The journalist revisits the original tapes to provide context and defend their work, presenting an account of what actually happened versus what Gladwell claimed.
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bskyJournalist defends 20-year-old interview after Malcolm Gladwell's public attackcarterharriswrites.substack.comKey quotes
· 5 pulledMalcolm Gladwell sat on a stage at The 92nd Street Y in New York and called me a 'jerk.'
He called my work as a journalist 'malpractice.'
He said I was responsible for the 'destruction of someone's career.'
Gladwell did so on the basis of an interview I had conducted with a music producer who described it, more than twenty years later, as one of the worst mistakes of his life.
What follows is an account of what actually happened, and of what I found when I dug up the tapes.
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