Mark Twain Weighs In On Journalism and Betrayal From Beyond the Grave

PBS has gotten its hands on a previously unpublished essay by noted steamboat pilot and father of American fiction Mark Twain, and the timing couldn’t have been better. Shortly after “The Runaway General” resulted in the firing of Stanley McChrystal, the treachery of a JournoList member resulted in the resignation of ex-Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel, and the treachery of Twitter did in CNN’s Octavia Nasr, Twain has ended years of death-induced silence to grant us a treatise on the stupidity and evil of the journalistic interview.