Damage (2010)
Damage
“She had earned this eminence not only because she was an excellent stylist as a writer, with a distinctive voice, but because her column, “Our Town,” was the most widely read and popular recurring feature in the newspaper. She had a great eye for news and especially for conflict disguised as news. It didn’t hurt, either, that Marrenas had early on been inculcated with a belief system that coincided with the politics of the newspaper’s owners, and that she could and did express these views with ...the passionate conviction of the true believer.
Now she came into her office, fresh from her lunch with the mayor’s press secretary, a bit of a coup in itself, her brain considering the slant to take on Leland Crawford’s first weeks in office, to cast him in the best possible light. She wasn’t overly concerned with her objectivity, which so many other news outlets had long ago proven to be a spurious virtue when it came to reporting. Besides, she was a columnist now—not just a reporter.MoreLess
Now she came into her office, fresh from her lunch with the mayor’s press secretary, a bit of a coup in itself, her brain considering the slant to take on Leland Crawford’s first weeks in office, to cast him in the best possible light. She wasn’t overly concerned with her objectivity, which so many other news outlets had long ago proven to be a spurious virtue when it came to reporting. Besides, she was a columnist now—not just a reporter.MoreLess
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