
The Journalist and the Murderer
Janet Malcolm · 1990
Opens with one of the great opening sentences: "Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible." An essay about the ethics of journalism that uses a specific case to argue a universal point.
Essays · the Pro canon
The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.